The earthquake resistance of a single-family detached masonry building in Črnomelj, Slovenia, is evaluated in this bachelor thesis. The building was constructed in 1964 and reconstructed in 2000. As the two parts of the building are connected through a vertical expansion joint, the seismic analysis was performed for each part individually. The building’s earthquake resistance was assessed by the N2 method, which is based on a non-linear static (pushover) analysis and is a part of the Eurocode 8 standard. The pushover analysis was first performed at the storey level, thus obtaining the pushover curves of the storeys, which were then merged into the pushover curve of the entire building. The bearing capacity of each wall was estimated by the simplified model taken into account the flexural failure, the shear failure due to sliding and the shear failure due to formation of diagonal cracks. The material characteristics of the building’s walls were taken from the literature due to the absence of in-situ measurements. In the assessment of earthquake resistance, the damage limitation limit state, significant damage limit state and near collapse limit state were considered. The analysis was conducted separately for the X and Y direction of seismic loading. On the basis of the limit states verification, it was found that the earthquake resistance of the older part of the building performed is better than that of the new part, which is the consequence of the poor design of the plan of the new part of the building. It was concluded that the building is not earthquake resistant accorindg to the Eurocode 8 requirements. Additionally, a pushover analysis without consideration of the shear failure of the walls due to sliding was performed, because such failure modes had been observed only in higher stories in the past earthquakes. In this case, the verifications of limit states were also not entirely fulfilled although the strength of the building was increased.
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