A displacement based seismic design procedure for RC buildings and comparison with EC8.

A procedure for displacement based seismic design (DBD) of reinforced concrete buildings is described and applied to a 4 storey test structure. The essential elements of the design procedure are : (a) proportioning of members for gravity loads; (b) estimation of peak inelastic member deformation dem...

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Published in:Earthquake engineering & structural dynamics. 30, 10 (2001).
Main Author: Panagiotakos, T.B
Format: Article
Language:English
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