<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Tall buildings present some specific aspects influencing the modeling and response to seismic loads. Therefore, the design rules recommended in codes, calibrated for low and medium rise buildings, are not appropriate for design of tall buildings. Other rules are needed, and performance based design represents a viable alternative for tall buildings. In this paper a methodology for the design of tall structures is proposed and it is illustrated trough a case study for a structure with perimeter tube and interior core walls, which aims to identify the particularities regarding the design, behavior and the parameters that define the post elastic behavior at the global and local level, for this structures.</p></abstract>

Tall buildings present some specific aspects influencing the modeling and response to seismic loads. Therefore, the design rules recommended in codes, calibrated for low and medium rise buildings, are not appropriate for design of tall buildings. Other rules are needed, and performance based design represents a viable alternative for tall buildings. In this paper a methodology for the design of tall structures is proposed and it is illustrated trough a case study for a structure with perimeter tube and interior core walls, which aims to identify the particularities regarding the design, behavior and the parameters that define the post elastic behavior at the global and local level, for this structures.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS IN SEISMIC DESIGN OF TALL REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS

PhD Student, Technical University of Civil Engineering, The Faculty of Civil, Industrial and Agricultural Buildings

Profesor, Phd, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, The Faculty of Civil, Industrial and Agricultural Buildings

Modelling in Civil Environmental Engineering

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Tall buildings present some specific aspects influencing the modeling and response to seismic loads. Therefore, the design rules recommended in codes,...

SPECIFIC ASPECTS IN SEISMIC DESIGN OF TALL REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS

Publié en ligne: 31 déc. 2013

Pages: 49 - 54

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mmce-2013-0018

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