Abstract

Based on mechanical characteristics of high rise structures with strengthened stories, the author performed direct displacement based seismic design on a high rise structure with 2 strengthened stories according to the direct displacement based seismic design principle. The performance levels are set to be “serviceability” under medium earthquake and “life safety” under major earthquake, respectively. The design procedures are with the following features: (1) Definition and selection of “key” stories are based on mechanical characteristics of high rise structures with strengthened stories; (2) Determination of mode number and calculation of horizontal earthquake action verified the availability of the design procedure; (3) some new ideas are proposed to improve the earthquake action calculation and structural performance control. The design procedure verified the effectiveness, feasibility and availability of the proposed direct displacement based seismic design method.

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