ASCE will be sunsetting the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) in the coming months. We encourage you to start using the ASCE Library to perform content searches. In the ASCE Library, you can save your search results as well as receive email content alerts when new content relevant to your area of interest is published. Try it out today at https://ascelibrary.org.

 

Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Framing Systems

by S. K. Ghosh, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA,
W. G. Corley, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: The Mexico Earthquakes?1985: Factors Involved and Lessons Learned

Abstract:

On September 19, 1985, Mexico City was hit by what is believed to have been the most damaging earthquake in its recorded history. In this report, a ground motion recorded in the severely damaged portion of the city was used to calculate the responses of hypothetical buildings including those having periods of about two seconds, the predominant period of the ground motion. Calculated drift considering inelastic behavior was compared with drift capacities of concrete specimens tested in the laboratory.

Subject Headings: Ground motion | Reinforced concrete | Concrete frames | Drift (structural) | Structural behavior | Soil stabilization | Earthquakes | Mexico City | Mexico

Services: Buy this book/Buy this article

 

Return to search