Pakistan is an underdeveloped country, still striving for improvement in construction practices. Most of the private construction\nis carried out as nonengineered which caused loss of approximately 85,000 lives in Kashmir (2005) earthquake. However, after\nthe Kashmir (2005) earthquake, the government and engineering community emphasized on implementation of seismic codes.\nAlthough the current construction practices are considered as better than previous construction work the vulnerability of these\nstructures is yet to be determined. It aims at the vulnerability assessment of recent RC construction in Pakistan that still needs to\nbe assessed. Research work starts with calibration of panel zone element (PERFORM 3D) depicting joint shear degradation, while\ncomparing the analytical results with experimental work, found in the literature. The frame work is then used for vulnerability\nassessment of RC structures typical of current construction practices in Pakistan while using advanced capacity spectrum method,\ndeveloped byKyriakides forwhich three cases have been considered, being constructedmore frequently by public sector, in different\nseismic zones, based on design usually followed by builders in the region. Finally, the conclusion is drawn with suggestion of further\nimprovement of seismic behavior of the structures.
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