The aim of the study is to investigate the seismic
behavior and consequences in the action of different
near ground motions using the HAZUS methodology, of a
shear wall RC structure. It has been observed that
different characteristics of the near fault ground
motion such as, the normal distance from fault trace
or the distance from point source, is different
from far fault ground motion.
In this present work, a 8 storey shear wall building,
has been performed the push over and time history
analysis’. The damage limit state has been defined
according to the HAZUS methodology and the pushover
analysis, for checking the performance level and the
limit states using the SAP 2000 software. To quantify
the maximum displacement of the building, we
used the existing seismic records in a non-linear
time history analysis. Therefore
the Hazus results had been in tabulated in this thesis,
evaluated and plotted against a fragility curve, case
that gives the
probability of exceedance of damage limit states
of the aforementioned building.
After this step, we look for
the differences between the Hazus methodology and the
SAP limit states,
which in this case, it resulted that the
differences between HAZUS methodology and SAP 2000 limit
states were way too small or inexistent .
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