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Published in Earthquake Spectra, Volume 27, Issue 3, January 1, 2011, pages 939-946.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1193/1.3610247.
Abstract
This paper compares base shears computed from floor accelerations (inertial base shear) and column shears (structural base shear) for two mid-rise, multistory buildings due to a suite of 30 earthquake ground motions. The presented results demonstrate that the inertial base shear exceeds the structural base shear in the median by 10% to 20% and may exceed the structural base shear by as much as 70% for individual ground motions. Therefore, it is concluded that the inertial base shear computed from strong motion records should be used with caution to estimate the structural base shear.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering
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