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Abstract
After the 1992 devastating earthquake that struck Cairo causing destructive damages ranging from repairable damage to total collapse, significant attention has been paid to evaluate how RC structure perform during and after earthquake.
This study investigates the importance of the understanding of the capacity design approach in the design of RC structure building subjected to earthquakes. Capacity design principles are recently employed in seismic design codes to help ensure ductile response and energy dissipation in seismic resisting systems using the strong column-weak beam as a concept. The aim of this study is to be taken as a reference on how capacity design can be applied in analysis using the pushover analysis method based on the Performance Based Design procedure, and to be used a recommendation for the Egyptian code of practice to implement these methods to improve the design of the RC structures in the future.
The performance Based Design (PDB) is considered as one of the emerging fields in seismic design which is still in the realm of research and academics. A simple explanation was made for PBD method using the pushover analysis (PA) demonstrating how progressive failure in buildings really occurs, also showing the incapability of the traditional methods in the seismic design, to verdict the behavior of the building during and after earthquake. In this research an example was made through numerical simulations for a 12 and 20 storeys height concrete building located in Cairo. The analysis was first performed for the code response spectrum analysis to make the design as preliminary level and then Non-linear static analysis (PA) was derived following the ATC procedure to check the building performance, using ETABS software.