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Seismic performance of a six story reinforced concrete building

Anderson, James C.; Bertero, Vitelmo V.

UCB/EERC-93/01, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1993, 161 pages (710.1/A52/1997)

A six-story reinforced concrete building located in San Bruno was instrumented with thirteen strong motion accelerometers at the time of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Lateral resistance for the building is provided by moment resisting perimeter frames and one interior moment frame. Spectral analysis procedures were used to evaluate the dynamic properties of the building based on the response recorded during the Loma Prieta earthquake (1989). Linear elastic models of the building were developed for use with commercially available computer programs. Building response calculated using these models was compared with recorded response. Models including the effect of inelastic material behavior were developed for use with a two-dimensional analysis program that considers both static analyses (pushover) and dynamic analyses (time history).

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-93-01.pdf (28 MB)