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Earthquake Loads & Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings

1. 1
2. Summary 2
3. Earthquake Design - A Conceptual Review 2
4. Earthquake Resisting Performance Expectations 3
5. Key Material Parameters for Effective Earthquake Resistant Design 3
6. Earthquake Design Level Ground Motion 4
6.1. Elastic Response Spectra 4
6.2. Relative Seismicity 5
6.3. Soil amplification 6
7. Derivation of Ductile Design Response Spectra 7
8. Analysis and Earthquake Resistant Design Principles 8
8.1. The Basic Principles of Earthquake Resistant Design 8
8.2. Controls of the Analysis Procedure 8
8.3. The ‘Conventional' Earthquake Design Procedure 11
9. The Capacity Design Philosophy for Earthquake Resistance 11
9.1. General Approach 11
9.2. The Implications of Capacity Design 12
10. Earthquake Resistant Structural Systems 12
10.1. Moment Resisting Frames: 12
10.2. Shear Walls 13
10.3. Braced Frames 13
11. The Importance & Implications of Structural Regularity 13
11.1. General......

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