INELASTIC DAMAGE ANALYSIS OF RCMRFS USING PUSHOVER METHOD

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to develop a practical damage criterion based onpushover analysis. For this purpose, damage analysis is performed on several Reinforced ConcreteMoment Resisting Frames (RCMRFs). In the static method, performance point of structures isfirstly determined using capacity spectrum method and then values of several different damageindices are calculated at these points. By comparing the results of two methods and evaluatingcorrelation between two sets, explicit damage relations are derived based on the static results.