REQUIRED BASE SHEAR FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS BASED ON EQUIVALENT LINEARIZATION METHOD

This paper describes relationships between the required base shear and the allowable horizontal drift of reinforced concrete buildings based on the equivalent linearization method, where hysteretic damping of the degrading tri-linear restoring force characteristics model and asymmetry of response to ground motions are taken into consideration. These relationships can be expressed by simple equations and show excellent agreement with the results of time history response analyses.