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A high percentage of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in Portugal were designed and built before the introduction of modern seismic codes. This research aims to assess the seismic capacity and vulnerability of RC buildings in the city of Lisbon. For that purpose, nonlinear static procedures have been used and fragility curves have been developed. These buildings are reaching the end of their nominal life. Therefore, ageing effects have been taken into account, as well as the presence of smooth rebar. To do so, a sensitivity analysis has been performed by considering the chloride-induced corrosion of the reinforcement steel rebar and the degradation of the concrete cover. To illustrate the effects of ageing and the procedure adopted for the seismic fragility assessment of old RC structures, three RC buildings with masonry infills have been selected as case studies. They were all built between 1960 and 1980, and they are representative of the current building stock in Lisbon. The seismic capacity of the buildings has been determined by means of nonlinear static analyses of three-dimensional numerical models. The N2 method and its extended version have been considered to determine the target displacement. The seismic safety of the buildings has been estimated in terms of the demand/capacity ratio for each vertical structural element (columns and walls) according to the bending and the shear failures. Then, a set of fragility curves has been developed for all buildings to represent the probability of RC elements reaching or exceeding the significant damage limit state. Results have shown that the concrete strength degradation has had more influence than reduction of the rebar diameter in the seismic capacity. When considering steel corrosion, it has been demonstrated that the corrosion rate has reduced the capacity more than the time of exposure. It can be concluded that ageing affects the seismic behaviour of RC structures, increasing the vulnerability of these buildings.
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The first author would like to acknowledge the financial support of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, Ministério da Educação e Ciência, Portugal) through the scholarship BL105/2019 by the FCT Research Program: MitRisk—Framework for seismic risk reduction resorting to cost-effective retrofitting solutions, POCI-01-01456-Feder-031865. In addition, the scholarship provided by the VI-PPI of the University of Seville is acknowledged.
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Couto, R., Requena-García-Cruz, M.V., Bento, R. et al. Seismic capacity and vulnerability assessment considering ageing effects: case study—three local Portuguese RC buildings. Bull Earthquake Eng 19, 6591–6614 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-020-00955-4
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