Site-Specific Response Spectra: Guidelines for Engineering Practice

Code response spectrum models, which are used widely in the earthquake-resistant design of buildings, simple to apply but they do not necessarily represent real behavior an earthquake. A code model typically incorporates ground motion a diversity earthquake scenarios affecting site and does any specific scenario. The soil amplification phenomenon is also poorly represented, as current classification scheme contains little information over potential dynamic sediments. Site-specific spectra have merit much more accurately representing behavior. improvement accuracy can be translated into significant cost savings. Despite all merits adopting site-specific spectra, few engineers make use these provisions that been around for long time. This lack uptake procedure by structural designers related absence coherent set detailed guidelines facilitate practical applications. To fill this knowledge gap, paper aims at explaining detail generating seismic or assessment buildings. Surface accelerograms generated from employed nonlinear time-history analyses where necessary. case study presented illustrate step-by-step manner.