Abstract: This study developed a seismic design approach, which has no need of additional structural members, to uniformly distribute the peak interstory drift ratios along building heights. The generalized building model (GBM), ...

Abstract: An efficient approximate method that uses the multi-degrees-of-freedom (MDOF) modal equations of motion for the seismic response history analysis of asymmetric elastic buildings with soil–structure interaction (SSI) is ...

Abstract: This study developed a seismic design approach, which has no need of additional structural members, to uniformly distribute the peak interstory drift ratios along building heights. The generalized building model (GBM), ...