This paper presents the seismic evaluation and prediction of a damaged piloti‐type Reinforced Concrete (RC) building before and after postretrofitting under successive earthquakes. For considering realistic successive earthquakes, the past records measured at the same station were combined. In this study, the damaged RC building due to the first earthquake was retrofitted with a buckling‐restrained brace (BRB) before the second earthquake occurred. Nonlinear Time History Analysis (NTHA) was performed under the scaled intensity of the successive ground motions. Based on the extensive structural response data obtained form from the NTHA, the fragility relationships between the ground shaking intensity and the probability of reaching a pre‐determined limit state was were derived. In addition, The the fragility curves of the pre‐damaged building without and with the BRBs were employed to evaluate the effect of the successive earthquakes and the post‐retrofit effect. Through the seismic assessment subjected to the successive records, it was observed that the seismic performance of the pre‐damaged building was significantly affected by the severity of the damage from the first earthquake damages and the hysteresis behavior of the retrofit element.

This study presents the seismic evaluation and prediction of post-retrofitted piloti-type reinforced concrete building with buckling-restrained braces (BRBs) under the successive earthquakes. For seismic assessment before and after retrofit of the BRBs, the fragility analysis is considered. The fragility relationships for the damaged building between ground shaking intensity and damage probability were derived under the successive earthquakes.