The aim of the paper is to explore the possibilities offered by SAP2000® v.10, a software package with
user-friendly interface widely used by practising engineers, for seismic analyses of masonry buildings.
The reliability of the code was first investigated by carrying out static push-over (SPO) analyses of two
walls, already analysed by other researchers using advanced programs. The equivalent frame modelling
was employed in all analyses carried out. The code was then used to investigate the seismic performance
of an existing two-storey building typical of the north-east of Italy, with the walls being made of roughly
squared stones. An SPO analysis was performed first on the most significant wall, followed by a number
of time-history analyses aimed to evaluate the dynamic push-over curves. Finally, the seismic fragility
curves were derived, considering the seismic input as a random variable.
