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Inelastic seismic response of one-story, asymmetric-plan systems

Goel, Rakesh K.; Chopra, Anil K.

UCB/EERC-90/14, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1990-10, 244 pages (530/G63/1990)

The inelastic responses of one-story, asymmetric-plan systems to earthquake ground motions are presented for a wide range of system parameters and analyzed with the objective of: (1) evaluating the effects of plan-wise distribution of stiffness and strength on the response; (2) investigating how the response is influenced by the system parameters; (3) identifying how structural response is affected by plan asymmetry and how these effects differ between elastic and inelastic systems; and (4) investigating how well the effects of plan asymmetry on structural response are represented by torsional provisions in building codes.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-90-14.pdf (16 MB)