Abstract:
In recent earthquakes during the last two decades, severe damages have been occurred on
the existing buildings in Turkey. Destructive earthquakes revealed that the existing building
stock in urban regions is significantly vulnerable to seismic hazard. A large number of
residential buildings located in regions of high seismicity require performance evaluation
before the next big earthquake hits the region. In many earthquake resistant codes, several
procedures are proposed to determine the building performance. The investigations on the
damaged buildings show that material strengths are very important parameters on the building
performance. In this study, material strengths’ effects on the building performance were
investigated by using a nonlinear elastic analysis method.
