Abstract
SUMMARYThis paper presents a practical method for evaluating lateral‐torsional coupling in the elastic earthquake response of asymmetric multistory buildings. A transformation technique is first developed to shift the floor centers of mass of an asymmetric building to new reference positions where the sum of the squares of all floor rotations of the building due to lateral inertia loads is a minimum. By setting the locus of the floor centers of mass of the building at the new reference positions, a representative eccentricity and an effectively uncoupled system for the building can be established on the basis which an equivalent eccentric single mass system can be developed. The additional lateral translations caused by seismic torsional effects in the building can be analytically determined and expressed in terms of the representative building eccentricity and the uncoupled periods evaluated using the effectively uncoupled system. The effectiveness and practicality of the proposed method are illustrated with two 30‐story practical buildings. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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