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Report - PEER - University of California, Berkeley

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MODAL PUSHOVER ANALYSIS: SYMMETRIC- AND UNSYMMETRIC-PLAN BUILDINGSAnil K. CHOPRA 1 and Rakesh K. GOEL 2ABSTRACTAfter a brief evaluation <strong>of</strong> methods currently standard in engineering practice to estimateseismic demands, this paper emphasizes modal pushover analysis, which is shown to provideconsiderably improved estimated <strong>of</strong> demands, while retaining the conceptual simplicity andcomputational attractiveness <strong>of</strong> current nonlinear static pushover procedures. Rooted instructural dynamics theory, this procedure is ready for practical application to symmetric-planbuildings and is promising for unsymmetric-plan buildings.Keywords: Buildings; Nonlinear static procedure; Pushover analysis; Seismic demands.1. INTRODUCTIONCurrently, the structural engineering pr<strong>of</strong>ession uses the nonlinear static procedure(NSP) or pushover analysis described in FEMA-356 (ASCE, 2000) and ATC-40(ATC, 1996) documents to estimate seismic demands, which are computed bynonlinear static analysis <strong>of</strong> the structure subjected to monotonically increasing lateralforces with an invariant height-wise distribution until a predetermined targetdisplacement is reached. Pushover analysis procedures have been improved in severalways. Adaptive force distributions that attempt to follow more closely the timevariantdistributions <strong>of</strong> inertia forces have been proposed (Bracci et al., 1997,Elnashai, 2001, Gupta and Kunnath, 2000). An incremental response spectrumanalysis procedure (IRSA) has been developed (Aydinoglu, 2003). Attempts havebeen made to consider more than the first mode in pushover analysis (Sasaki et al.,1998; Kunnath and Gupta, 2000; Matsumori et al., 1999). Based on structuraldynamics theory, a modal pushover analysis procedure (MPA) has been developedthat includes higher mode contributions to determine the total seismic demand(Chopra and Goel, 2002; Chopra and Goel, 2004).The objectives <strong>of</strong> this paper are to (1) briefly evaluate procedures used in currentstructural engineering practice to estimate seismic demands for buildings; and (2)1 <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>California</strong>, <strong>Berkeley</strong>, chopra@ce.berkeley.edu2 CalPoly State <strong>University</strong>, rgoel@calpoly.edu333

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