Seismic Capacity Evaluation of Existing Reinforced Concrete School Building in Afghanistan

摘要

As shown above a 30 classrooms school building withRC-UM structure is studied to evaluate its strength againstearthquake actions. The 1st and 2nd levels of Japanese screeningmethod are applied in conducting this research. In this study,only strength of the vertical structural members is consideredin seismic capacity calculation. Therefore, having low shearstrength of RC columns caused to low seismic capacity of thisschool building. The result show that Is is lower than Iso inalmost all cases. Since there are several other school buildingswith different number of classrooms, stories, and structure typea detailed seismic capacity evaluation program is necessary.