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- Title
- Earthquake Resistance of High-Rise Systems: Digests of Case Studies of Tall Buildings Damaged in Earthquakes.
- File
- PB84241082.pdf
- Author(s)
- Mikroudis, G. K.; Mueller, P.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., December 1983, 256 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- LEHIGH/FEL-474.6
- Abstract
- The report contains a collection of digests of detailed case-studies on tall buildings damaged in earthquakes and a preliminary assessment of the available data. Each digest identifies site, ground motion, soil conditions: high-rise systems (structural, architectural, mechanical); design and construction related data as year of construction, governing code, design assumptions and construction practices; damage; cause for observed performance and failures, and recommendations or lessons learned. The digest portion of the report is followed by a presentation of classification schemes for high-rise systems, earthquake, and damage, and a preliminary assessment of data. The investigated parameters material (steel versus concrete), tallness (high-rise versus medium-rise), configuration (regular versus irregular), and structural system (other versus moment-resisting frames) were found to affect earthquake damage in tall buildings in this order of importance.
- Keywords
- Tall buildings; Damage; Earthquake engineering; Superstructures; Recommendations; Earthquakes