Critical Earthquake Response of 2DOF Elastic-Perfectly Plastic Model Under Multiple Impulse as Substitute for Long-Duration Earthquake Ground Motions

An equi-spaced consecutive impulse input is treated as a simplified representative for a long-duration earthquake ground motion. The key property of such input can be captured approximately by using harmonic waves. An approximate closed-form solution is derived for the elastic-plastic response of a...

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Main Authors: Yoshito Saotome, Kotaro Kojima, Izuru Takewaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Built Environment
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbuil.2018.00081/full