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Seismic assessment of a real RC asymmetric hospital building according to NTC 2008 analysis methods

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The seismic assessment of existing buildings is an essential issue of seismic engineering. This work is focused on the evaluation of the seismic performance of existing RC buildings according to the current Italian Technical Code, which almost coincides with the European Eurocode 8. Alternative types of analyses, all consistent to the Code provisions, have been performed with reference to a case-study, that is a real RC hospital building. An accurate knowledge of the building has been achieved, as a result of a collaboration between the University of Florence and the Regional Government. Both elastic and inelastic modeling, as well as static and dynamic ones, have been adopted in the analysis. The global response—with special attention to torsional effects—and the seismic performance of each single member have been found with all the performed analyses. The comparison among the analyses has been performed in terms of both global and local response parameters, and the reliability of each analysis has been pointed out.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by the project DPC-ReLUIS 2010/2013 Task 1.1.2. “Strutture in cemento armato ordinarie e prefabbricate”. The Authors also wish to thank the Government of Regione Toscana for providing the building database.

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  1. Department of Architecture (DiDA), University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    A. La Brusco, M. Tanganelli, S. Viti & M. De Stefano

  2. Department of Structural Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

    V. Mariani

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La Brusco, A., Mariani, V., Tanganelli, M. et al. Seismic assessment of a real RC asymmetric hospital building according to NTC 2008 analysis methods. Bull Earthquake Eng 13, 2973–2994 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-015-9758-6

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