A Review of Existing Pushover Methods for 2-D Reinforced Concrete Buildings
By
MANUEL ALFREDO LÓPEZ MENJIVAR
Supervisor: Dr. RUI PINHO
ABSTRACT
It is well known, within the Earthquake engineering community, that the most accurate method of seismic demand prediction and performance evaluation of structures is nonlinear time history analysis. However, this technique requires the selection and employment of an appropriate set of ground motions and having a computational tool able to handle the analysis of the data and to produce ready-to-use results within the time constrains of design offices; clearly, a simpler analysis tool is nonlinear static pushover analysis.It is well known, within the Earthquake engineering community, that the most accurate method of seismic demand prediction and performance evaluation of structures is nonlinear time history analysis. However, this technique requires the selection and employment of an appropriate set of ground motions and having a computational tool able to handle the analysis of the data and to produce ready-to-use results within the time constrains of design offices; clearly, a simpler analysis tool is nonlinear static pushover
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