6th International Congress of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Kocaeli, Türkiye, 13 - 15 Ekim 2021, cilt.1, sa.1, ss.420-430
The major earthquake’s and the field
research has shown that take place in Turkey's earthquake. Structures in Turkey
are necessary to be able to stand without collapsing in a major earthquake may
face in the future. Earthquake effects can be met by
providing permanent deformation of the structures and by increasing the lateral
rigidity and damping rate of the structures. The aim of this study is to reduce unwanted permanent deformations by
placing infill walls without causing an irregularity in the structure, and to
meet the effects of earthquakes by increasing the lateral stiffness and damping
ratio of the structure. It is anticipated that the first
elements to receive damage during an earthquake are the infill walls and thus
the infill walls can permanently change shape and meet the effects of
earthquakes. One of the aims of the study is that the
beams are damaged significantly after the infill walls have completely
collapsed and the columns remain in the linear elastic region. In this context, a series of results have been obtained by
making nonlinear analyzes on the structure with a finite element model that can
fully reflect the property of infill walls. It
was observed that two of the bearing elements of the structure used in the
study were in advanced damage level. However,
the presence of the infill walls in the building immediately reduced these two
heavily damaged elements to the level of use. It was observed that the infill walls were the first damaged element and
then the beams were damaged during the earthquake. As a result, it has been suggested that infill walls
should be taken into account in the design or performance analysis of
structural systems.