If you would like to investigate the real affect of EQ excitation to building structure (for example, when you have to give an expert opinion about an erected structure)you have to use time-history records without any scaling for calculation with nonlinear material behavior and scaled by...
I think it isn't possible to say in generaly what is the amount of reinforcement for the joints of SMRF. It is depending a lot of the particular structural scheme.
In project I have taken part in usually about 30% +/-10% of reinforcement is used for beam-column' joints. But this is according...
Hi,
If you running nonlinear calculations with nonlinear materials behavior you must use real earthquake acceleration without any reduction.
But, If you running nonlinear or linear calculations with elastic (constant) material behavior you must scale the real earthquake acceleration with...
