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Selection of Ground Motions for Response History Analysis

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Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering

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Earthquake records; Ground motion; Record scaling; Response history analysis

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The evolution in computational power and the parallel processing capabilities of modern engineering software make nowadays the use of complicated structural analysis methods an attractive alternative for the design and assessment of structures. In contrast to the past, when the elastic static analysis was almost exclusively used for the seismic design of structures, the state of practice has progressively moved toward dynamic-elastic, nonlinear-static (i.e., single mode or multi-modal “pushover”), and even nonlinear response history analysis. The latter, capturing more efficiently the hierarchy of failure mechanisms, the energy dissipation, the force redistribution among the structural members, and contact issues (such as gap, impact, sliding, and uplift), is deemed preferable in cases of significant material or geometrical nonlinearities and, as such, is used for the design of...

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  1. Division of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece

    Anastasios G. Sextos

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Sextos, A.G. (2015). Selection of Ground Motions for Response History Analysis. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_114

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