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Seismic risk assessment of a traditional rammed earth structure from Eastern Croatia

Traditional houses in Eastern Croatia were usually built using local earthen material. Today, earthen architecture in Slavonia and Baranja is in deteriorating state. With no guidelines or standards for building and preserving earthen structures in Croatia, it is easy to presume that a part of Croatian cultural heritage will soon disappear. Moreover, poor seismic performance of earthen structures poses one of the biggest obstacles in finding proper ways of preserving existing and building new earthen architecture. It is, however, fair to assume that from the middle of the 19th century to today, earthen buildings encountered strong ground motions, but their seismic performance and possible fracture mechanisms are still unknown. Therefore, this paper deals with seismic risk assessment determined on a numerical model of a rammed earth structure.

rammed earth structure, numerical model, seismic behavior, incremental dynamic analysis, fragility curves

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