ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF A REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME STRUCTURE USING PUSHOVER ANALYSIS METHOD

Abstract

Although the progress of studies that have focused on limiting damages due to earthquakes, this least still be the biggest obstacle that faces the development of structural engineering. Recently for example, numerous reinforced concrete buildings have been collapsed or totally destroyed under the effect of soil movements due to the seismic forces, those degradations are very sensitive and directly linked more to displacement than to efforts. The capacity curve obtained by the Pushover analysis emphasize this and shows clearly that the appearance of degradations and the total collapse occur when the structure reaches a certain limit of displacement. Key