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Abstract: Earthquakes are the natural phenomenon that occur at several places of world. Severe
earthquakes, when near inhabited districts, have caused extensive loss of life and property. Although
some progress in the area of seismic prediction has been made, earthquakes cannot be accurately
predicted in time, magnitude or location. Therefore, the main way of decreasing losses is to construct
seismic resisting structures. Recent earthquakes illustrates that the older buildings,which are not desined
to resist earthquakes, have been damaged rather than buildings which have been designed according to
seismic codes. Many existing buildings in Egypt are designed to resist the gravity loads only without
seismic provisions. The need is raised to study the vulnerability of these buildings to avoid a serious risk.
In this paper, the light is shed on the significant contribution in the field of seismic vulnerability
evaluation of building in order to suggest a suitable procedure for seismic evaluation of existing R.C
buildings in Egypt. Seismic evaluation was applied on the selected two case studies, one represent the
GLD buildings and other according to Egyptian code.
Abstract: Current detailed seismic evaluation methods are based on numeral approaches. However,
there is a need to improve the reliabilityof such evaluations especially in many situations where detailed
design documentations are not present. 3D-SAM is a Nobel approach used based on in-field ambient
vibration measurementing acceleration/velocity sensors located on building platforms. The proposed
method can be used to access most of building types as it incorporates torsional effects and it does not
need the creation of any finite element model. Applications to four buildings located in montreal are
presented that illustrate and validate the proposed method
Current seismic evaluation methods for building are based on linear and
nonlinear static and dynamic analysis approaches. However, there is both uncertainty and variability in
the predicted results obtained from the numerical models that are developed using different
approaches. According to a survey conducted on phase I of the ATC-55 project about the application of
the assessment methods in structural engineering firms in USA. The paper introduces a novel 3-D
experimental seismic assessment method based on ambient vibration measurements for low to
moderate seismic regions.