Floor Acceleration Demands in a Twelve-Storey RC Shear Wall Building
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Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
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Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
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Academic Editor: Francisco López Almansa
Buildings 2021, 11(2), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11020038
Received: 17 December 2020 / Revised: 13 January 2021 / Accepted: 21 January 2021 / Published: 25 January 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Dynamics and Analysis of Civil Structures and Engineering Materials)
The seismic response of acceleration-sensitive non-structural components in buildings has attracted the attention of a significant number of researchers over the past decade. This paper provides the results which improve the state-of-knowledge of the influences that higher vibration modes of structures and nonlinearity of non-structural components have on floor acceleration demands. In order to study these influences, a response-history analysis of a code-designed twelve-storey reinforced concrete building consisting of uncoupled ductile cantilever shear walls was conducted. The obtained absolute floor accelerations were used as a seismic input for linear elastic and nonlinear non-structural components represented by simple single-degree-of-freedom systems, and the main observations and findings related to the studied influences along the building height are presented and discussed. Additionally, the accuracy of the method for the direct determination of peak floor accelerations and floor response (acceleration) spectra recently co-developed by the first author was once again investigated and validated. A brief summary of the method is provided in the paper, along with the main steps in its application. Being relatively simple and sufficiently accurate, the method (in its simplified form) has been recently incorporated into the draft of the new generation of Eurocode 8.
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Keywords:
higher modes; nonlinear non-structural components; peak floor accelerations; floor response spectra; response-history analysis; direct method
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Vukobratović, V.; Ruggieri, S. Floor Acceleration Demands in a Twelve-Storey RC Shear Wall Building. Buildings 2021, 11, 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11020038
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Vukobratović V, Ruggieri S. Floor Acceleration Demands in a Twelve-Storey RC Shear Wall Building. Buildings. 2021; 11(2):38. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11020038
Chicago/Turabian StyleVukobratović, Vladimir; Ruggieri, Sergio. 2021. "Floor Acceleration Demands in a Twelve-Storey RC Shear Wall Building" Buildings 11, no. 2: 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11020038
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