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- Title
- Response of Flat Plate Concrete Structures to Seismic and Wind Forces.
- File
- PB86139714.pdf
- Author(s)
- Akiyama, H.; Hawkins, N. M.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Directorate for Engineering., July 1984, 342 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- SM84-1
- Abstract
- The report utilizes the results of the comprehensive series of tests conducted at the University of Washington, on slab-column sub-assemblages and frames subjected to inelastic reversed cyclic lateral loads, to develop a general beam analogy model for predictions of the strength, stiffness, ductility, energy absorption, and energy dissipation characteristics of flat plate concrete structures subjected to lateral loads. A method is developed for devolving that relatively complicated beam-analogy model into a more simplistic model suitable for inelastic dynamic analyzes of buildings.
- Keywords
- Earthquake resistant structures; Wind pressure; Seismic waves; Lateral pressure; Dynamic tests; Dynamic response; Flat concrete plates; Concrete structures; Flat plates; Computer programs; Loads (Forces); Structural analysis