| A full scale seven-story reinforced concrete building, was tested on a shake table, at the National Earthquake Engineering Society's (NEES) facility at the University of California, San Diego during the period October 2005 through January 2006 using scaled acceleration time histories of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, one of the strongest recorded motions.;Numerically calculated parameters using a three dimensional finite element model of this structure by using commercially available software SAP2000 are compared with available experimental data from tests with the goal to propose a type of analyses which can accurately estimate all the necessary parameters for structural engineering industry. The methods studied include equivalent lateral force method, modal response spectrum analysis and nonlinear time history analysis consisting of fast non linear analysis and direct integration analysis. |
