Vafa Morsali

Department of Civil Engineering, IAU Saghez Branch, Saghez, Iran

[ 1 ] - New Lateral Force Distribution for Seismic Design of Structures Based on Seismic Demand Ratio

The design of earthquake-resistant buildings starts with defining the maximum lateral earthquake forces or their resultant. The amount of these forces depends on various factors, including coefficient of system behavior which depends on overstrength and its ductility. In this study, a method is presented for designing an earthquake-resistant system in which the distribution of lateral forces is...

[ 2 ] - Seismic Design of Steel Structures Based on Ductility and Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis

In this paper a simple tool for seismic design of steel structures for a selected ductility level is presented. For this purpose, a consistent set of earthquakes is selected and sorted based on the maximum acceleration of ground surface. The selected records are applied as the base motion to a single-degree-of-freedom system with strain hardening and the maximum response acceleration is determi...

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