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Article
An Innovative Seismic Protection System for Conventional RC Buildings
Author(s)
Zekirija Idrizi1 and Isak Idrizi2
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2017.12.003
Affiliation(s)
1. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hasan Prishtina University, Prishinë 10000, Kosova;
2. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Mother Teresa University, Shkup 1000, Macedonia
ABSTRACT
As capacity design philosophy suggests, the best way to achieve a safe
seismic response of multistory buildings, under strong earthquakes, is to
uniformly spread the inelastic deformation demands throughout the building
structure. Unfortunately, this type of mechanism is difficult to be reached due
to the abundant presence of infill wall panels on buildings, which under strong
earthquakes show severe cracks and strength degradations, thus complicating the
seismic response of buildings. In order to avoid these brittle mechanisms of
failure, studies were made toward development of new
seismic protection system which would completely protect the infill walls from
any cracks and strength degradation manifestations and simultaneously improve
the seismic response of the entire structure. Utilization of the “IDRIZI”
seismic protection system, would greatly contribute to many important aspects,
like the increase of structural seismic performance, drastic reduction of
damages under strong earthquake events and avoiding any unpredictable local
failure mechanisms on buildings.
KEYWORDS
Infill walls, IDRIZI seismic protection system, passive control, friction device.
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