A direct displacement-based seismic design procedure of inelastic structure

摘要

This paper presents a simple but efficient displacement-based seismic design procedure, which does not involve a substitute structure assuming a linear behavior and a viscous damping equivalent to the non-linear response. It is based on the formulations derived from the capacity-spectrum method using Newark-Hall reduction factors for the inelastic demand spectrum. When apply- ing such approach for a new design, no spectrum is needed to plot.