Performance evaluation of an existing building according to Turkish Earthquake Code 2007

Keywords: Linear Elastic Method, Nonlinear Method, Pushover Analysis, Performance Evaluation In recent years, for performance evaluation of the existing buildings under the seismic loads, linear methods and the Nonlinear Static Procedure (NSP) based on pushover analysis have become extremely popular in structural earthquake engineering community. This study focuses on the seismic performance evaluation of the structures. This aim can be achieved by introducing linear and nonlinear methods for designing, analyzing and checking the design of structures so that they meet the selected performance objectives. Analysis procedures are capable of predicting the demands-forces deformations. In this study, have been done to determine the capacity demand imposed on a building expected to elastically and displacement to deform inelastically. For this, was used elastic and inelastic method for Turkish earthquake code. To illustrate these methods, have been done evaluation of the existing building on a simple ground+5 stories.