Seismic vulnerability assessment of a low-rise un-reinforced masonry building by fragility curves

Abstract

    Masonry building is one of the commonly adopted structural types of low-rise civil buildings. The buildings are often susceptible to damage when they are subjected to ground motions of earthquakes. Damage of the buildings is in different damage states due to magnitude of earthquakes. Fragility curves provide a powerful solution tool for seismic vulnerability assessment of such structures. The use of fragility curves to evaluate the seismic vulnerability assessment of a structure was presented in some article researches in the world, however, it was few researches in Vietnam related the vulnerability assessment of a structure using fragility curves. In this paper, seismic vulnerability assessment of a lowrise un-reinforced masonry building using fragility curves is investigated by finite element analysis.