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Abstract Seismic performance evaluation of building structures is an innovative challenge for structural engineers and researchers. Since the occurrence of 1992 earthquake on October, several improvements have been introduced to the Egyptian code to provide the conditions and recommendations required for earthquake resistant design of structures. This research studies the seismic response behavior of reinforced concrete (R.C) building having different types of slab system, That commonly used in residential buildings such as solid slab , flat slab and hollow block slab systems. Static and dynamic analysis method are used to perform the analysis following the Egyptian seismic design code requirements. A set of 5 earthquake records collected during the 1940 El-Centro ,1999 Duzce , 1995 Kobe , 1989 Loma Pertia ,and 1994 North ridge are used to perform the dynamic time – history analysis of building models. The Structural Software package ETABS are used to develop the considered different building models. The equivalent static force ( EQSF), dynamic response spectrum (RS) and time-history analysis methods are defined employing the ETABS as well. The seismic responses in terms of building displacement , inter-story drift, storey shear and over turning moment of storeys of building models are investigated .The effect of existence of shear walls on the induced seismic responses are also investigated for all considered different configurations of the buildings . The obtained results from the performed analysis show that, the type of slab system significantly affects the dynamic behavior of RC building. |