Performance Based Seismic Evaluation of a 62 Story RC Tower in Istanbul

2018-06-18
Budak, Erhan
Sucuoğlu, Haluk
A 62-story tall reinforced concrete office building with a free-standing height of 250 m has been designed in Istanbul in accordance with the new Turkish Earthquake Code (TEC, 2017). According to TEC 2017, buildings taller than 70 m and located in the first and second seismic zones are classified as tall buildings and these building shall be designed to meet the special rules based on performance-based seismic design approach. The tall building in Istanbul, having a parallelogram shaped floor plan and reinforced concrete core wall-peripheral frame system will be one of the tallest buildings in Europe. In this study, a comprehensive description of the structural system of the building is given. Then the design criteria for seismic and wind actions and the analytical models prepared for different performance levels are explained. Finally, the results obtained for the Immediate Occupancy performance under 43-year earthquake and Life Safety performance level under the 2475-year earthquake are presented and discussed. In this sense, this study presents the first real case implementation of the new Turkish Earthquake Code for the design of tall buildings in severe seismic zones.
16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (18 - 21 Haziran 2018)

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Citation Formats
E. Budak and H. Sucuoğlu, “Performance Based Seismic Evaluation of a 62 Story RC Tower in Istanbul,” presented at the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (18 - 21 Haziran 2018), Thessaloniki, Yunanistan, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84460.