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Seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing tall buildings in California: case study of a 35-story steel moment-resisting frame building in San Francisco

Lai, Jiun-Wei; Wang, Shanshan; Schoettler, Matthew J.; Mahin, Stephen A.

PEER-2015/14, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, University of California, Berkeley, Authors and publisher retains copyright, 2015-12, PDF

The seismic performance of new tall buildings located in regions of high seismic hazard has been recently investigated by Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) under its Tall Buildings Initiative (TBI) program. This program has now expanded to assess the seismic performance of existing tall buildings. A 35-story steel building located in San Francisco and designed in 1968 is selected as the subject of the detailed seismic evaluations presented in this report. Results from several three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear dynamic analyses are presented to examine the potential seismic performance of this structure in future earthquakes.

Available online: https://peer.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/webpeer-2015-14_jiun-wei_lai_shanshan_wang_matthew_j._schoettler_stephen_a._mahin.pdf