1st Croatian Conference on Earthquake Engineering 1CroCEE 2021

On November 26, 2019, a magnitude 6.4 (Mw) earthquake occurred in Durrës, Albania, causing considerable damages to many surrounding buildings. In this paper, a six floor RC structure, with a frame system, located in Durrës is taken in consideration. The structure suffered significant structural damages due to strong ground motion. The institutions responsible for the situation assessment described it as a structure with the high-risk collapse. For this reason, on December 3, 2019, the engineer corps demolished this building with controlled explosion. The purpose of this study is to analyse the collapse mechanism of the six floor structure, based on well-established Finite Element Method. This structure will therefore be simulated with advanced modelling software, such as ETABS Ultimate. Analytical results, obtained by the numerical methods are then compared with the observed In-Situ damages.