Abstract:
The study includes analyses of two school structures, one built with retaining
unreinforced masonry, where some structural problems because of the degradation of
masonry parameters over the years have been identified and the other is new reinforced
concrete structure school. In Albania, as a high seismic risk country, it is very important
to design and evaluate anti seismic structures. The new and old Albanian design codes
do not have established procedures for their seismic evaluation. For this reason, it is
necessary to evaluate the carrying capacity of these school structures projects selected in
Tirana which are designed in accordance with the old codes [KTP-78, 1978; KTP-89,
1989], nowadays based on the calculation of structural Eurocodes such as EN1996, with
ETABS V15.9 software. The new reinforced school in static linear analysis according to
EC8 with equivalent wall frame system has been analyzed and the advantages compared
to existing masonry have been presented. The educational building is modeled in Etabs
where ground data with the geological and seismic study are real
