ABSTRACT
The Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, has developed methods and a corresponding package of computer programs for evaluation of the seismic resistance of existing RIC building structures. The method can also be used for testing newly designed buildings aiming at carrying out eventual necessary modifications and improvement of the structures during the phase of final design. Presented in the paper shall be the details of the methodology developed at IZIIS by Golubka Necevska-Cvetanovska [3] as well as the results from the design of the structure (constructed in the territory of the town of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia) by using the presented methodology (RESIST-INELA software) compared to the requirements and the criteria of Eurocode 8. Also shall be presented the Displacement-Based Design (DBD) procedure [8] as an alternative seismic design procedure where the only design input is the maximum allowable displacement, i.e. target displacement. Design forces, stiffness and reinforcement details all become dependent on the target displacement. DBD is an iterative process where the strength and stiffness are not variables; they are the end results.
