Seismic assessment of a typical masonry residential building in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Seismic vulnerability has been conducted by performing pushover and time history analyses. A comparison in terms of dynamic properties, crack pattern and capacity curves was done and a good agreement has been found between the two software packages. The paper's aim was to assess the seismic safety of this type of construction. A further objective was to investigate if simple software packages could be used for the assessment of these buildings. As a wide stock of this type of buildings is located through the former territory of ex-Yugoslavia, this work would enable a better understanding of this type of structures and quick overview of their actual seismic behavior.