Torsional balance of plan-asymmetric structures with frictional dampers: Analytical results

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1089-1108

  de la Llera, Juan C ^a   Almazán, José L ^a   Vial, Ignacio J ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Earthquakes response; Empirical center of balance; Frictional dampers; Plan asymmetry; Response reduction factors; Static eccentricity; Torsional balance; Torsional index

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DAMPING; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ELASTICITY; FRICTION;

ELASTIC ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; TORSIONAL BALANCE; UNBALANCED DESIGN;

TORSIONAL STRESS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING;

EID: 21844439757     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.469     Document Type: Article

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