Seismic responses comparison of RC building in consideration of plastic hinge models and properties

Assessment of reinforced concrete building capacity under seismic excitation has been recognized to be highly important for the past decades especially in Indonesia. Previous studies showed failures of RC building occurred in columns with bad confinement. The confinement in RC column has significant role in providing ductility and shear capacity for seismic loads. For this aim, a five-story RC building having different confinement on column members are investigated under seismic excitation. Three set of ground motions are selected and matched with target response spectrum of Indonesian code. Nonlinear analysis is performed by utilizing OpenSEES finite element software. To account the inelastic behaviour of beam and column elements, two types of plastic hinge are applied for both elements, namely finite length plastic hinges (plastic zone) and distributed hinges along the length of elements. The results show that there is a noticeable difference in seismic responses in correlation with the building model. (paper)