In Australia, most of the existing buildings were designed before the release of the
Australian standard for earthquake actions in 2007. Therefore, many existing buildings in …

Earthquake risk assessment of buildings inventory requires assessing the vulnerability of
building to various levels of hazard. The lateral strength and deformation capacity of …

Although seismic design codes are often subjected to improvements after each earthquake
disaster, old constructions are left unprotected by new technology. The purpose of this paper …

This study aims to assess the seismic performance of typical reinforced concrete buildings
constructed in Australia before the enforcement for seismic design. The response of both the …

Australia is in a region of low-to-moderate seismicity, but experiences a higher level of
seismic activity than other active intra-plate regions around the world. Because of the low …

This study develops a motion-damage database (the Canterbury Earthquake Building
Assessment, CEBA database) using surveyed information obtained from the Canterbury …

Performance of reinforced concrete frame buildings depends on seismic hazard of the
region and vulnerability of the structure. Performance-based evaluation of buildings may be …

Seismic risk assessment involves the development of fragility functions to express the
relationship between ground motion intensity and damage potential. In evaluating the risk …

Six months after the 4 September 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake, a Mw 6.2
Christchurch (Lyttelton) aftershock struck Christchurch on the 22 February 2011. This …

This article is concerned with the development of seismic fragility curves for typical mid-rise
plane reinforced concrete moment-resisting frames in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) …