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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40069-016-0183-2

Preliminary Structural Design of Wall-Frame Systems for Optimum Torsional Response  

Georgoussis, George K. (Department of Civil Engineering, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education (ASPETE))
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International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials / v.11, no.1, 2017 , pp. 45-58 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recent investigations have pointed out that current code provisions specifying that the stiffness of reinforced concrete elements is strength independent, and therefore can be estimated prior to any strength assignment, is incorrect. A strength allocation strategy, suitable for preliminary structural design of medium height wall-frame dual systems, is presented for allocating strength in such buildings and estimating the dependable rigidities. The design process may be implemented by either the approximate continuous approach or the stiffness matrix method. It is based on the concept of the inelastic equivalent single-degree-of-freedom system which, the last few years, has been used to implement the performance based seismic design. The aforesaid strategy may also be used to determine structural configurations of minimum rotation distortion. It is shown that when the location of the modal centre of rigidity, as described in author's recent papers, is within a close distance from the mass axis the torsional response is mitigated. The methodology is illustrated in ten story building configurations, whose torsional response is examined under the ground motion of Kobe 1995, component KJM000.
Keywords
earthquake engineering; inelastic structures; strength dependent stiffness; asymmetric buildings; modal center of rigidity;
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