Abstract:
1998 Adana and 1999 Marmara and Düzce Earthquakes in the last decade in Turkey, caused serious damages to precast concrete buildings. Single pinned connections are then critisized and this conncetion type is changed to double-pinned type. In this study, 15 precast concrete structures are designed according to 1998 Turkish Earthquake Code. After that, nonlineer time history analysis of these buildings are carried out to study forces coming to roof girder and behavior of roof girder. Then, adequacy of design procedure of double-pinned connections are investegated and some suggestions are made concerning design procedure of connections.