Seismic response of an instrumented 13-story steel frame building damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 131-149

  Uang, Chia Ming ^a   Yu, Qi Song ^a   Sadre, Ali ^b   Bonowitz, David ^c   Youssef, Nabih ^d   Vinkler, Jacqueline ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Esgil Corporation   (United States)

^c SE   (United States)

^d Nabih Youssef and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; DISPLACEMENT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAILURE MECHANISM; GROUND MOTION; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE 1994; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STEEL STRUCTURE;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES;

DEMAND CAPACITY RATIOS (DCR); ELASTIC TIME HISTORY ANALYSIS; INELASTIC TIME HISTORY ANALYSIS;

TALL BUILDINGS;

EID: 0031071413     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.1585935     Document Type: Article

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