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Report - PEER - University of California, Berkeley

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distribution with a pre-determined CV location. The first procedure has the strengthdistribution taking the shape <strong>of</strong> the yield displacement distribution with anadjustment. The adjustment is to allow modification <strong>of</strong> the CV location desired by theuser. It is referred to as a yield displacement distribution based (YDDB) procedure(Tso and Myslimaj, 2003). The second procedure involves the use <strong>of</strong> staticequilibrium analyses to generate the desired strength distribution and is referred to asthe static equilibrium analysis based (SEAB) procedure (Myslimaj and Tso, 2005).These procedures lead to different strength distributions in general. Studies showedthat the torsional response is sensitive to the CV location, but insensitive to the details<strong>of</strong> the strength distribution. Therefore, so long as the strength distribution satisfies thebalanced CV-CR location criterion, both procedures will give a strength distributionthat will lead to small torsional response, as will be demonstrated in the next section.Figure 4. Generic structural model and CV, CR locations <strong>of</strong> four examplestructures.To study the effectiveness <strong>of</strong> the current torsional provisions, the response <strong>of</strong> foursingle storey structures derived from a generic structural model subjected to bidirectionalbase excitation is compared. The generic model consists <strong>of</strong> a single378

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