There is a global trend for seismic response improvement of new buildings to reduce cost and\nfuture damage. It is also important to improve existing structures that are designed without\nconsideration of seismic load or using old provisions that cannot meet the new one. The objective\nof this paper is to draw attention to evaluate existing reinforced concrete school buildings,\nthen to present a proposed methodology to improve the behaviour of such schools with low cost\nespecially in a developing country. The proposed method uses overhead water tanks as a tuned\nmass damper. A pushover analysis has been performed to evaluate the existing schools and\nperform a feasibility study to select the best solution to achieve seismic response improvement\nof the existing structure. Of course, the proposed methodology can be applied easily to other existing\nstructures.
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