Abstract:
This study focuses on, by means of a probabilistic approach, the seismic safety evaluation
of a school building in Turkey designed before the introduction of modern anti-seismic codes. A
typical school building which was designed according to the 1975 version of the Turkish
Earthquake Code is selected for the performance assessment. Inelastic pushover and time history
analyses are deployed under the effect of one hundred input ground motions. Fragility curves are
generated for different concrete and detailing quality in terms of peak ground velocity. The
probabilistic seismic response and vulnerability of the school are investigated by building
fragility curves of the system and of its most vulnerable components. The results illustrate the
significance of assessing the vulnerability of typical school buildings under the effect of various
seismic scenarios and the need for extending this study to cover other typical classes of school
buildings in the region.
