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DETERMINING DESIGNFORCE LEVELS FOR EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURAL WALLS Arnoldo T.Derecho,M.Iqbal,W.G.Corley 1

DESIGNING MULTISTORY BRACED STEEL FRAMES FOR EARTHQUAKES Ashok K.Jain,Subhash C.Goel 9

EVALUATION OF ASEISMIC DESIGN PROCEDURES FOR REINFORCED CORCRETE FRAMES John M.Biggs 17

RELIABILITY-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF ELASTO-PLASTIC STRUCTURES Ryoichiro Minai,Yoshiyuki Suzuki 25

SEISMIC RESPONSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FLAT PLATE STRUCTURES Meil M.Hawkins 33

A PROPOSAL OF A NEW ASEISMIC DESIGN METHOD FOR BUILDINGS IN JAPAN K.Nakaro,Y.Ishiyama,Y.Ohashi 41

DAMAGE OF BRACED STEEL FRAMES DUE TO THE 1978 MIYAGIKEN-OKI EARTHQUAKE Atsuo Tanaka,Koj i Morita,Hiroyuki Yamanouchi 49

THE RELATIVELY LIGHT DAMAGE PRODUCED BY TWO STRONG MOTION EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTHERN MEXICO J.Prince,L.Alonso 57

ISORELIABLE SEISMIC DESIGN OF R/C COLUMNS R.Giannini,A.Giuffre,M.Menegotto 65

STRENGTHENING OF DAMAGED MASONRY BY REINFORCED MORTAR LAYERS M.Jabarov,S.V.Kozharinov,A.A.Lunyov 73

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE AT IZUMI HIGH SCHOOL IN 1978 MIYAGIKEN-OKI EARTHQUAKE AND METHODS OF REPAIR AND STRENGTHENING M.Yokoyama,H.Imai 81

THE STENGTHENING METHODS OF THE EXISTING REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS Toshio Hayashi,Hideakira Niwa,Masashi Fukuhara 89

STRENGTH PROPERTIES OF EPOXY REPAIRED STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS DURING AND AFTER FIRE EXPOSURE J.M.Plecnik,R.B.Williamson,M.G.Pham 97

AN INVESTIGATION OF MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF REPAIRED R/C FRAMES UNDER SEVERE REPEATED LOADS Nina A.Maio,Cirano Fei 105

INDUSTRIAL ASEISMIC NORMAL AND MULTISTORIED BUILDINGS Yu.V.Ismailov,A.A.Chuprina 113

PEAK DUCTILITY DEMANDS IN SIMPLE TORSIONALLY UNBALANCED BUILDING MODEL SUBJECTED TO EARTHQUAKE EXCITATION H.Max Irvine,G.E.Kountouris 117

STRENGTH AND BEHAVIOR OF STRUCTURALWALLS WITH SHEAR FAILURE Oscar Hernandez B.,Mario E.Zermeno de L 121

SEISMIC RESPONSE SPECTRA FOR NONLINEAR STRUCTURES Mario Paz 125

INELASTIC SPECTRA FOR SEISMIC DESIGN Mathan M.Newmark,Rafael Riddell 129

SEISMIC RESISTANCE OF UNBONDED POST TENSIONED FLAT PLATE CONSTRUCTION Narong Trongtham,Neil M.Hawkins 137

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S IMPERIAL HOTEL:A SEISMIC RE-EVALUATION Robert King Rei therman 145

BUILDING CONFIGURATION PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS Christopher Arnold,Eric Elsesser 153

DESIGN,CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF REINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO SEISMIC FORCES James E.Amrhein 161

ULTIMATE RESISTANCE OF MULTISTORY REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS WITH CANTILEVER SHEAR WALLS Hiroshi Kawamura,K.Masua 169

OPTIMUM SEISMIC RESISTANCE OF LARGE PANEL STRUCTURES USING LIMITED SLIP BOLTED JOINTS Avtar S.Pall,?edric Marsh 177

INFLUENCE OF RESTORING-FORCE CHARACTERISTICS OF BRACES ON DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF BRACED FRAME Michio Shibata 185

A PROPOSAL FOR ASEISMIC DESIGN OF SUBSTATION APPARATUS AND THEIR FOUNDATIONS Satoshi Shiomi,Hiroyuki Watanabe 193

UNFAVORABLE SEISMIC DIRECTIONS IN EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT DESIGN Adnan ?akiro?lu 201

A DESIGNER'S DEFINITION OF AN 0PEN-SECTION SHEAR WALL Bülent Trak,Ergin Atimtay 209

STRESS MAGNIFICATIONS IN WALLS WITH OPENINGS Bisülay Utku 217

A NEW SYSTEM OF BRICK BUILDINGS FOR IMPROVED BEHAVIOUR DURING EARTHQUAKES A.S.Arya,M.Qamaruddin,Brijesh Chandra 225

DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF PREFABRICATED APARTMENT BUILDINGS J.G.Bouwkamp,R.M.Stephen 233

OPTIMUM DESIGN OF A CHIMNEY FOR DYNAMIC INPUTS Hasan Boduro?lu 241

EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF R/C PILOTIS BUILDING SUBJECTED TO OFF MIYAGI PREFECTURE EARTHQUAKE 1978 IN JAPAN Tomoya Nagasaka,Akira Hiramatsu 245

MODELING THE STIFFNESS CONTRIBUTION OF INFILL PANELS TO FRAMED STUCTURES BY A CONSTRAINT APPROACH James W.Axley 249

THE COMMONALITY OF DYNAMIC ANALYSIS PROCEDURES FOR EARTHQUAKE AND WIND LOADINGS P.J.Cevallos Candau,W.J.Hall 253

LESSONS FROM STRUCTURAL DAMAGES OBSERVED IN RECENT EARTHQUAKES Vitelmo V.Bertero,Stephen A.Mahin,James A.Axley 257

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON PREFABRICATED REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURAL SYSTEM R.Fukuzawa,O.Chiba,T.Hatori,S.Maruyama,T.Katoh,K.Yagishita 265

DETAILING REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS FOR SEISMIC PERFORMANCE Loring A.Wyllie Jr. 273

SEISMIC DESIGN LaPPED SPLICES IN REINFORCED CONCRETE Peter Gergely,Richard N.White 281

SPATIAL RESPONSE SPECTRUM Massima Cantone,Carlo Gavarini 289

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT PRESTRESSED CONCRETE STRUCTURES U?ur Ersoy,Emin Aktan,Tu?rul Tankut 296

CONCEPT OF SINGLE BRICK THICK LOAD BEARING WALLS UPTO FOUR TO FIVE STOREYED RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN SEISMIC ZONES G.C.Mathur 303

ON DEFORMATIONS DUE TO HORIZONTAL FORCES Halit Demir 311

SEISMIC RESISTANT CONNECTIONS FOR MIXED CONSTRUCTION Charles W.Roeder 319

STRENGTHENING EXISTING R/C COLUMNS FOR EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE Lawrence F.Kahn 327

REHABILITATION OF DAMAGED REINFORCED CONCRETE ELEMENTS:AN EXPERIME?TAL INVESTIGATION G.Augusti,F.Focardi,S.Giordano,E.Manzini 335

STUDIES OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE TO JAPANESE LOW-RISE BUILDINGS Charles Scawthorn,Hirokazu Iemura 343

ULTIMATE ASEISMIC SAFETY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES M.Yamada,H.Kawamura 351

INDUSTRIAL MONOLITHIC HOUSE-BUILDING IN MOLDAVIA N.D.Polyakov. 359

STUDY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS DAMAGED DUE TO THE MIYAGI-KEN-OKI,JAPAN,EARTHQUAKE OF JUNE 12,1978 Shizuo Hayashi,Y.Morishima,A.Wada 361

ON INELASTIC RESPONSE SPECTRA FOR ASEISMIC BUILDING DESIGN Shih-Sheng P.Lai,John M.Biggs 365

AN INVESTIGATION FOR THE DESIGN OF FRAMED STRUCTURES WITH INFILL WALLS M.Makino,A.Kawano,Y.Kurobane 369

MULTICOMPONENT SEISMIC DESIGN Ajaya K.Gupta 373

SEISMIC RESISTANCE OF A 31-STORY SHEAR WALL-FRAME BUILDING USING DYNAMIC INELASTIC RESPONSE HISTORY ANALYSIS Mark Fintel,S.K.Ghosh 379

STEEL-BEAM DAMPERS FOR INCREASING THE EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE OF STRUCTURES R.I.Skinner,R.G.Tyler,A.J.Heine 387

PREDICTION OF THE PROBABILITY OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE TO REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING GROUPS IN A CITY Akenori Shibata 395

SOME ASPECT OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN EARTHQUAKE PRONE ZONES D.K.Rakshit 403

STRENGTH OF REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS IN OBLIQUE SECTIONS EXPOSED TO SEISMIC LOADS S.V.Polyakov,A.A.Gvozdev,Yu.S.Kulygin,A.S.Zalesov,O.F.Iljin,V.A.Gorodetky 411

ON REDUCING SEISMIC LOAD,SELECTING OPTIMUM RIGIDITY OF STRUCTURES AND SPECIFYING SURPLUS SEISMIC RESISTIVITY B.K.Karapetian,E.E.Khachikian,V.A.Stepanian,V.A.Ambartsumian,S.M.Arutiunian 419

EFFECT OF DAMPING AND TYPE OF MATERIAL NONLINEARITY ON EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE Rafael Riddell 427

STRENGTHENING OF HIMALAYAN BUDIST MONASTRIES-A CASE STUDY Ravindra PRAKASH. 434

MASONARY STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS FOR REGIONS OF HIGH SEISMICITY M.J.N.Priestlèy 441

ASEISMIC STRENGTHENING OF EXISTING REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS Shunsuke Sugano,Masaru Fujimura 449

ADOBE CONSTRUCTIONS BASIS FOR A SEISMIC RESISTANT CODE J.Vargas-Neumann 457

STRENGTHENING OF ADOBE HOUSES FOR SEISMIC ACTIONS Roberto Meli,Oscar Hernandez,Marciano Padilla 465

DUCTILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR STRUCTURES IN SEISMIC AREAS OF CENTRAL EUROPE F.P.Müller,E.Keintzel. 473

ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT BRACED TO RESIST SEISMIC LOADING J.W.Foss,G.A.Nikolakopoulou 477

AN EFFECTIVE STRUCTURAL SYSTEM AGAINST EARTHQUAKES-INFILLED FRAMES T.C.Liauw 481

INFILLED FRAME CONSTRUCTION IN SEISMIC REGION D.V.Mallick 486

OPTIMUM DESIGN OF ASEISMIC COUPLED SHEAR WALLS F.Braga,P.D.Asdia,M.Dolce 493

AN EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT DESIGN ON HIGHRISE BUILDING WITH V-SHAPED FRAMING PLAN Kiyoshi Muto,M.Nagata,E.Fukuzawa 497

A GUIDELINE TO EVALUATE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF EXISTING MEDIUM AND LOW-RISE REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS AND ITS APPLICATION Hajime Umemura 505

STRENGHTENING EFFECT OF ECCENTRIC STEEL BRACES TO EXISTING REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES Shigeya Kawamata,Masaaki Ohnuma 513

STRENGTHENING CONCEPT AFTER ROMANIAN STRONG EARTHQUAKE OF MARCH 4,1977 Mihail Ifrim 521

A SPACIAL BEHAVIOUR OF A NINE STORIES SRC BUILDING DURING THE MIYAGIOKI EARTHQUAKE 1978 Hirozo Mihashi,Norlaki Namura,Akira Kondo 529

INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS AND ELEMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT CIVIL BUILDINGS M.A.Marjanishvili,G.Sh.Chanukvadze,E.P.Alexandrian,A.M.Kimberg 537

SOME LESSONS FROM THE MARCH 14,1979 EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO CITY Enrique del Valle 545

ENERGY CONCENTRATION OF MULTI-STORY BUILDINGS Hiroshi Akiyama,Ben Kato 553

EARTHQUAKE OBSERVATION IN AND AROUND A STEEL FRAME APARTMENT HOUSE WITH PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL Koichi Ohami,Masaya Murakami 561

REPAIR AND STRENGTHENING OF BUILDINGS DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKES J.Kuroiwa,J.Kogan 569

PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE RESISTANCE OF MASONRY BUILDINGS V.Turnsek,M.Tomazevic 577

FLEXURAL RIGIDITY OF R/C COLUMNS IN SIDESWAY FRAMES Ergin Atimtay,Orhan Baydar 585

BUILDING CONFIGURATION:CHARACTERISTICS FOR SEISMIC DESIGN Christopher Arnold 589

STRUCTURAL RESPONSE ARISING FROM TRAVELLING SEISMIC WAVES J.G.Morgan,W.J.Hall 593

DUCTILITY REQUEST IN SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF NONLINEAR MULTIDEGREE OF FREEDOM STRUCTURES D.Capecchi,G.Rega,F.Vestroni 597

EARTHQUAKE DESIGN OF CONCRETE MASONRY WALLS Robert E.Englekirk,Gary C.Hart 601

EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO IMPROVE THE EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT PROPERTIES OF BRICK BUILDINGS Zhou Bing-Zhang 605

ON A METHOD OF EVALUATION OF ANTI-EARTHQUAKE DESIGN CODE OF INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES Heki Shibata 613

DESIGN SEISMIC COEFFICIENT IN SEISMIC COEFFICIENT METHOD AND ACTUAL EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE Shunzo Okamoto,Choshiro Tamura,Katsuyuki Kato 621

SOME COMMENTS TO THE NEW SEISMIC DESIGN REGULATIONS FOR COSTA RICA Jorge A Gutierrez 629

A LIFETIME COST APPROACH TO AUTOMATED EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT DESIGN Norman D.Walker Jr.,Karl S.Pister 637