Dynamic behaviour of multi-storey buildings

Abstract

A series of frames and walls for multi-storey structures were sized and analysed by the different methods described in the New Zealand draft loading code DZ 4203-86.  The aim was to examine the differences arising from the equivalent static and the modal response spectrum methods of analysis.  Several of these structures were analysed for an earthquake ground motion in non-linear time history analyses.  The effects of P-delta actions on the behaviour were investigated.