Seven-story Building Subjected to Seismic Loading: Experimentation and Modeling

This article presents a research program on a structure representing a seven-story residential building tested on the shaking table in the NEES [6]. The building was designed using a displacement based capacity approach for a site in Los Angeles resulting design lateral force. The structure is composed of 2 main perpendicular walls connected by slotted connections. The numerical calculations have been made up to failure of the specimen, at the local but also at the global level, using multi-fiber beams. Constitutive laws are based on damage mechanics and plasticity to describe cracking of concrete and the plastic behavior of steel. It is shown that the model is able to describe the global behavior of the structure and qualitatively the distribution of damage at the base of the specimen