A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
An Assessment of Seismic Floor Accelerations in Wood Shear Wall Buildings
This paper is focused on assessing the earthquake induced horizontal floor accelerations in wood shear wall buildings. While building design codes have provisions for estimating horizontal seismic design force that might occur at different story levels in a building, these procedures are empirical and do not differentiate between various types of structural systems. The research discussed in this paper evaluates the floor acceleration demands in a variety of FEMA P-695 wood-frame shear wall index models, with different damping levels and earthquake ground motion characteristics. These computed floor acceleration demands are compared against the different design demands for rigid and flexible non-structural components as recommended in the seismic design provisions of ASCE 7. The results from this study show that for the wood-frame index models studied, maximum floor accelerations frequently occurred at first floor level, which is different than the height-wise distribution of acceleration demands computed using ASCE 7 design provisions.
An Assessment of Seismic Floor Accelerations in Wood Shear Wall Buildings
This paper is focused on assessing the earthquake induced horizontal floor accelerations in wood shear wall buildings. While building design codes have provisions for estimating horizontal seismic design force that might occur at different story levels in a building, these procedures are empirical and do not differentiate between various types of structural systems. The research discussed in this paper evaluates the floor acceleration demands in a variety of FEMA P-695 wood-frame shear wall index models, with different damping levels and earthquake ground motion characteristics. These computed floor acceleration demands are compared against the different design demands for rigid and flexible non-structural components as recommended in the seismic design provisions of ASCE 7. The results from this study show that for the wood-frame index models studied, maximum floor accelerations frequently occurred at first floor level, which is different than the height-wise distribution of acceleration demands computed using ASCE 7 design provisions.
An Assessment of Seismic Floor Accelerations in Wood Shear Wall Buildings
Jayamon, J. R. (author) / Line, P. (author) / Charney, F. A. (author)
Second ATC & SEI Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures ; 2015 ; San Francisco, California
2015-12-03
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Assessment of Floor Accelerations in Yielding Buildings
| NTIS | 2012
Earthquake-Induced Floor Accelerations in Base-Rocking Wall Buildings
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2021
Earthquake-induced floor horizontal accelerations in buildings
| Online Contents | 2002