Seismic Assessment of Dutch URM Buildings According to NPR9998:2018 Code with an Equivalent-Frame Approach

Abstract

In the last two decades, the province of Groningen, located in the North-East of the Netherlands, has been subjected to an increasing number of earthquakes induced by gas extractions. The existing building stock is mainly composed by unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings not conceived to resist seismic loads. The need of reducing the vulnerability of these buildings by means of retrofit interventions, led to the development and adoption of a new guideline (NPR9998:2018). As regards the seismic assessment of URM buildings using nonlinear static analysis, the guideline includes significant differences with respect to Eurocode 8, which is adopted in other European countries. The more significant differences lay in the description of failure mechanisms and constitutive laws of piers and spandrels, inthe identification of limit states and in the calculation of seismic demand. In the last years, the assessment and retrofit in the region has been carried out using software based on an equivalent-frame strategy: among these, the 3Muri software has been widely adopted. The solver of this program is the research software TREMURI. In this work, a new version of the solver adopted by the software 3Muri, complying with the requirements of the new Dutch guideline, was developed; the tool was then validated with simple examples. To illustrate the specificities of the new guideline, the seismic assessment of a building representative of one of the most widely diffused URM building typologies in the area was performed.

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