Response of middle-rise steel frames with and without passive dampers to near-field ground motions

Engineering Structures

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-179

  Tirca, Lucia Dana ^b   Foti, Dora ^a   Diaferio, Mariella ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Energy dissipaters; Near field ground motion; Velocity pulse

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOLOGY; STEEL; VELOCITY;

MOMEMT RESISTING FRAMES (MRF);

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STEEL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0037228925     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(02)00132-3     Document Type: Article

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