Floor Acceleration Demands in a Twelve-Storey RC Shear Wall Building

The seismic response of acceleration-sensitive non-structural components in buildings has attracted the attention a significant number researchers over past decade. This paper provides results which improve state-of-knowledge influences that higher vibration modes structures and nonlinearity have on floor acceleration demands. In order to study these influences, response-history analysis code-designed twelve-storey reinforced concrete building consisting uncoupled ductile cantilever shear walls was conducted. obtained absolute accelerations were used as input for linear elastic nonlinear represented by simple single-degree-of-freedom systems, main observations findings related studied along height are presented discussed. Additionally, accuracy method direct determination peak (acceleration) spectra recently co-developed first author once again investigated validated. A brief summary is provided paper, with steps its application. Being relatively sufficiently accurate, (in simplified form) been incorporated into draft new generation Eurocode 8.