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- Title
- Response of an Instrumented Masonry Shear Wall Building with Flexible Diaphragms during the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
- File
- PB94155900.pdf
- Author(s)
- Tena-Colunga, A.; Abrams, D. P.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., December 1992, 112 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- UILU-ENG-92-2025
- Abstract
- The objectives of this study are the following: (1) Assess the applicability of the simplified discrete MDOF dynamic model for the seismic evaluation of the two-story office building at Palo Alto and similar masonry shear wall buildings with flexible diaphragms. (2) Correlate the recorded, observed and computed response at the two-story office building at Palo Alto with estimates of dynamic response and prescribed allowable stress limits by state-of-the-art masonry and seismic codes.
- Keywords
- Masonry; Walls; Dynamic response; Palo Alto (California); Loma Prieta earthquake; Earthquake engineering; Shear strength; Office buildings; Diaphragms (Mechanics)