Response of an Instrumented Masonry Shear Wall Building with Flexible Diaphragms during the Loma Prieta Earthquake

摘要

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.