TABLE OF CONTENTS 1

EARTHQUAKE ANALYSIS OF COUPLED SHEAR WALL BUILDINGS T.Sríchatrapímuk-Aníl K.Chopra 1

BEHAVIOR OF FLAT PLATE FLOOR SYSTEMS UNDER IN-PLANE SEISMIC LOADING H.Faruk Karado?an,Ti Huang,Le-Wu Lu,Masayoshi Nakashima 9

DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES WITH VIBRATION ABSORBER T.Takahashi-S.Kuranishi 17

OPTIMUM RIGIDITY DISTRIBUTION OF ASEISMIC DESIGN FOR MULTI-STORY SHEAR FRAMES Wang Guang-yuan,Dong Ming-yao Guo-Hua 25

EFFECT OF AXIAL DEFORMATION OF COLUMNS ON DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING FRAMES Koji Yoshimura-Kenji Kikuchi 33

A SIMULATION OF EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING FRAMES TO BIDIRECTIONAL GROUND MOTION BY IIS COMPUTER ACTUATOR ON LINE SYSTEM Tsuneo Okada,Matsutaro Seki-Yung J.Park 41

DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE WALL SYSTEMS M.Saatcio?lu,T.Takayanagi,-A.T.Derecho 49

DYNAMIC PROPERTIES AND SEISMIC RESPONSE OF FRAMED WALLS AND PANEL BUILDINGS V.T.Rasskazovsky,U.Sh.Shamsiyev,R.N.Musheyev,L.J.Babich 57

DYNAMICS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES SUBJECT TO HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL GROUND MOTION Sukenobu Tani-Satsuya Soda 65

EARTHQUKE RES PONSE ANALYSIS OF 19 STOREY PREFABRICATED REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME STRUCTURE Wang Kai-shun,Wang Wen-zhen 73

EARTHQUAKE FAILURE CRITERIA OF DETERIORATING HYSTERETIC STRUCTURES Hirokazu Iemura 81

RESEARCH ON ASEISMIC DESIGN OF STEEL TOWER CONSTRUCTED ON THe TOP OF BUILDING H.Yoshida,H.Takane,N.Adachi,H.Koshida-M.Iizuka 89

DAMPING OF A SOIL-STRUCTURE SYSTEM P.Sotirov 97

A CONTRIBUTION TO THEORETICAL PREDICTION OF DYNAMIC STIFFNESS OF SURFACE FOUNDATIONS H.Tajimi 105

THE EFFECTS OF LARGE DISPLACEMENTS ON THE EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF TALL STRUCTURES Athol J.Carr-Peter J.Moss 113

EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME-CRACKED SHEAR WALL SYSTEMS Dr.Cel?l N.K?stem-Gilberto Areiza 117

ON THE DAMAGE AND CAUTION TO WOODEN HOUSES BY RECENT EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN Gorozo Iizuka 121

STUDY ON EVALUATION OF PARAMETERS IN THE SOIL-BUILDING SYSTEM Y.Kitagawa,Y.Irie,-S.Tamori 125

A SIMPLIFIED ANALYSIS METHOD ON INTERACTION SYSTEM ABOUT STRUCTURE-FOUNDATION-SOIL SURFACE LAYER Yuzuru Yasui 133

COMPARISON OF ANALYSIS METHOD FOR SEISMIC SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION Wayne W.H.Chen,M.Chatterjee,A.Unemori 141

EFFECTS OF STRUCTURE-SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION DURING VARIOUS EXCITATIONS Hatsukazu Mizuno 149

RESEARCH ON THE DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FOUNDATION BY THE USE OF NUMERICAL INTEGRAL EXPRESSIONS FOR THE WAVE EQUATIONS Isao Toriumi,Akira Kowada,Toshiharu Hisatoku Teruo Segawa 157

LAYERED SOIL-PILE-STRUCTURE DYNAMIC INTERACTION Yoshikazu Yamada,Hirokazu Takemiya-Shigeru Noda 165

SEISMIC STABILITY OF EMBEDDED TANK Takahiro Iwatate,Takeji Kokusho-Satoshi Ooaku 173

STUDY ON FILTERING EFFECT OF FOUNDATION SLAB BASED ON OBSERVATIONAL RECORDS Kiyoto Shioya-Hiroshi Yamahara 181

DYNAMIC SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION UNBER A TOPOGRAPHICAL SITE CONDITION Takuji Kobori-Yuzo Shinozaki 189

EVALUATION OF DYNAMIC STIFFNESS OF EMBEDED FOUNDATION USING DYNAMIC REACTION OF SURFACE LAYER Takanori Harada-Keizaburo Kubo 197

SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES WITH RECTANGULAR BASES ON POROUS ELASTIC SOIL MEDIUM Shoon-rong Kao.Theodore G.Toridis,-K.Khozeimeh 205

SEPARATION AND SLIDING BETWEEN SOIL AND STRUCTURE TO STRONG EARTHQUAKE MOTION Kenzo Toki,Tadanobu Sato-Fusanori Miura 213

SEISMIC RESPONSE OF SUBSTRUCTURES NONLINEARLY COUPLED WITH SOIL Takashi Akiyoshi 221

EFFECTS OF FOUNDATION EMBEDMENT ON SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION V.W.Lee 225

STUDY ON SOIL-PILE INTERACTION OF PILE GROUPS IN VERTICAL VIBRATION Yoshihisa Gyoten,Tadahiro Fukusumi,Takahito Inoue,Toshiki Mizuno 229

SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTION RESPONSE OF COMPLEX INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES Satyendra P.Gupta-Mani Kant Gupta 233

ON THE ACCURACY OF NUMERICAL MODELS IN 3-D SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION G.Solari,D.Stura,C.Vardanega 237

EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF SHELL-TYPE FIXED OFFSHORE TOWERS BY MATRIX PROGRESSION METHOD Y.Tanaka,T.Hamamoto,-K.Konno 245

THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF A PLANT TOWER CONSIDERING SOIL EFFECT IN LARGE STRAIN LEVEL Kenji Hagio,Akio Ikeda-Souichi Kawamura 253

EARTHQUAKE ANALYSIS OF 3D STRUCTURES WITH FLEXIBLE FLOORS H.Faruk Karado?an 261

ELASTO-PLASTIC EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE ANALYSIS FOR MULTI-STOREYED BUILDINGS TAKING ACCOUNT OF TORSION Wei Lian Zhu Jingxin jiang Zhili 269

ANALYSIS OF SEISMIC RESPONSE OF CYLINDRICAL SHELLS WITH IMPERFECT CIRCULAR SECTION CONTAINING LIQUID Sukenobu Tani,Naohito Hori 277

SEISMIC LOADS ON SUSPENDED SYSTEM Wang Qianxin,Lu Shuhui 285

EQUIVALENT INTERACTION MODAL DAMPING T.Selcuk Atalik 292

A STUDY REGARDING DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES SUPPORTED BY WALL FOUNDATION SYSTEM Wes Study Group 298

TWO-DIMENSIONAL INELASTIC SEISMIC RESPONSE OF STEEL FRAMES INCLUDING AXIAL DEFORMATION OF COLUMNS Motoo Saisho 307

IMPULSIVE PRESSURE ACTING ON THE TANK ROOFS CAUSED BY SLOSHING LIQUID Nobuyuki Kobayashi 315

SEISMIC DESING OF STRUCTURAL WALL BUILDINGS AND INELASTIC RESPONSE ANALYSIS Boris Simeonov 323

THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS UPON ANALYTICAL MODELS REGARDING DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN SOIL AND METRO-TYPE STRUCTURES Gh.Palamar?,N.Ungureanu,I.Ciongnadi 327

STUDIES ON EARTHQUAKE RESPONSES OF GROUPED UNDERGROUND TANKS IN SOFT GROUND Yozo Goto-Takeshi Shirasuna 331

A METHOD FOR THE DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF EMBEDDED STRUCTURES A.Aydin Dumano?lu 335

THE USE OF INTERPOLATION FUNCTIONS IN RESPONSE CALCULATIONS Muzaffer Ipek 339

COMPUTATION OF SEISMIC RESPONSE OF LIGHT ATTACHMENTS TO BUILDINGS Nathan M.Newmark-Raberto Villaverde 343

ULTIMATE STRESSES IN LARGE-PANEL BUILDINGS EXPOSED TO SEISMIC LOADS G.A Shapiro,G.N.Ashkinadze 351

EFFECTS OF INITIAL OUT-OF-ROUNDNESS ON SEISMIC RESPONSE OF CYLINDRICAL LIQUID STORAGE TANKS A.S.Veletsos-J.W.Turner. 359

THE RESPONSE OF STRUCTURES TO TRAVELING BODY AND SURFACE WAVES S.D.Werner-L.C.Lee 367

DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF NONSYMMETRIC BUILDING STRUCTURES Riko Rosman 375

VIBRATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND EARTHQUAKE RESPONSES OF THE ASYMMETRIC MULTISTORY BUILDINGS Joji Sakurai 383

THREE DIMENSIONAL INELASTIC BUILDING RESPONSE TO SEISMIC LOADING A.G.Gillies-R.Shepherd 391

GENERALIZED MUTO METHOD FOR STRUCTURES COMPOSED OF NON-ORTHOGONAL FRAMES Adnan ?akiro?lu-Günay ?zmen 399

SYNTHESIS OF RESPONSES OF TWO SUBSYSTEMS FOR COUPLED SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF EQUIPMENT MOUNTED ON A STRUCTURE Erol Varo?lu-W.D.Liam Finn 407

SOME ANALYTICAL MODEIS IN THE EARTHQUAKE ENGINERING AND SOME WAYS OF REDUCING THE SEISMIC LOAD A.T.Stohl,Yu.P.Nazarov. 415

INFLUENCE OF HYSTERESIS MODELS ON CALCULATED SEISMIC RESPONSE OF R/C FRAMES Mehdi Saiidi 423

PEAK SEISMIC RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF SECONDARY SYSTEMS M.P.Singh 431

IRELASTIC RESPONSE HISTORY ANALYSES OF EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT BUILDING STRUCTURES WITH YIELDING WALLS AND ELASTIC FRAMES Mark Fintel-S.K.Ghosh 435

DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF STEEL SPACE FRAMES UNDER EARTHQUAKE EXCITATION IN HORIZONTAL ARBITRARY DIRECTION Shosuke Morino,Yasuhiro Uchida 439

EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF TORSIONALLY COUPLED MULTISTOREY BUILDINGS Mario di Paola 443

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS FOR RECTANGULAR WATER TANKS C.Minowa 447

NODAL ANALYSIS OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS Taugir M.Sheikh,Jose M.Roesset,C.P.Johnson 451

SUBSTRUCTURE METHOD FOR EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF HIGH-ELEVATED MULTI-SPAN CONTINUOUS BRIDGE Hirokazu Takemiya-Kenji Kawano 459

EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF SYSTEMS WITH NONPROPORTIONAL DAMPING BY THE CONVENTIONAL RESPONSE SPECTRUM METHOD Roberto Villaverde 467

DAMPING CHARACTERISTICS OF R.C.HIGHRISE CHIMNEY BASED ON EARTHQUAKE MOTION MEASUREMENT Koji Kitazawa,Akio Ikeda-Kenj i Hagio 475

A SEMI-ANALYTIC F.E.MODELFOR INERTIAL INTERACTION ANALYSIS F.Venancio Filho-S.Hampshire 483

INELASTIC ANALYSIS OF EARTHQUAKE RESPONSES OF SINGLE-STORY FACTORY BUILDINGS TAKING ACCOUNT OF TORSIONAL VIBRATION Zhu Bolong-Lu Weimin 490

3-DIMENSIONAL STUDY OF NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMN UNDER REPEATED LATERAL FORCES Tadashi Sugano,Takashi Miyashita,Norio Inoue 497

EFFECT OF STIFFNESS DEGRADATION ON SEISMIC RESPONSE OF CONCRETE FRAMES Jagmohan Humar 505

VIBRATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SHALLOW CYLINDRICAL TANKS Cel?l N.K?stem-Joseph W.Tedesco 513

ELASTO-PLASTIC RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF SEISMIC-RESISTANT FRAMES VIA MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING F Casciati,L.Faravelli-A.Gobetti 521

COMPUTED BEHAVIOR OF A TEN-STORY REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME-WALL STRUCTURE FOR STATIC LATERAL LOADS Katshuhiko Emori,-W.C.Schnobrich 529

APPLICATION OF DIFFERENT SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS AT THE SEISMIC RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES Emilia Juhasova 537

EARHQUAKE RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF SEVERAL KINDS OF STRUCTURES WITH REALISTIC RESTORING FORCE CHARACTERISTICS Koji Mizuhata,Naoya Harada Tamotsu Tsuda,Masahiko Yamaoka 545

INELASTIC RESPONSE OF BUILDING STRUCTURES BY TRAVELLING EARTHQUAKE WAVE MOTIONS Yutaka Inoue-Masahiro Kawano 553

SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR COMPUTATION OF EARTHQUAKE INDUCED 561

SHEARS AND OVERTURNING MOMENTS IN REGUIAR MULTISTOREY STRUCTURES Peter Fajfar-Stefan Strojnik 561

USE OF DYNAMIC ANALYSIS IN SEISMIC DESIGN Jagmahan Humar 565

THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION ON OVERTURNING OF BODIES BY EARTHQUAKE MOTIONS AND FIELD SURVEY OF 1978 OFF MIYAGI PREFECTURE EARTHQUAKE Yuji Ishiyama 569

PROBLEMS IN THE USE OF ROOT-SUM-SQUARE SOLUTIONS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF BUILDINGS J.C.Jeing 573

FREE VIBRATION OF ARCHES WITH AXIAL LOADING Ali Aydin. 577

ELASTO-PLASTIC DYNAMIC RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF FLEXURAL-SHEAR MODEL(AN APPRAISEMENT OF AN EXAMPLE OF THE APPLICATION OF PLANE-FRAME) Mitsugu Asano-Takayuki Teramoto 581

THE STOCHASTIC FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD Humberto Contreras 585

EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF MULTI-STORY R.C.FRAMED BUILDINGS Yin Zhigian,Li Shuzhen 593

THREE DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF 110 MW BOILER SUPPORTING STRUCTURE SUBJECTED TO SEISMIC EXCITATION C.Kameswara Rao,K.Ramadasa,A.K.Singh-K.G.Bhatia 601

QUANTITATIVE SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT FOR SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS Hector Monzon-Despang 609

NONLINEAR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES USING VISCOPLASTIC MATERIAL MODEL S.K.Thakkar 617

SEISMIC RESPONSE OF MULTI-SUPPORT STRUCTURES L.Esteva,S.E.Ruiz, A.Reyes 625

SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES WITH MASONRY WALLS Enrigue Bazan-Roberto Meli 633

SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR OF PRECAST PANEL SHEAR WALLS O.A.Pekau-H.P.Huttelmaier 641

NONLINEAR EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING FRAMES BY THE EQUIVALENT LINEAR METHOD Matsutaro Seki-Tsuneo Okada 649

INELASTIC RESPONSE BEHAVIOR OF TORSION IN BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO STRONG EARTHQUAKE Takao Nishikawa 657

SPATIAL AND MODAL COMBINATIONS OF DYNAMIC RESPONSE FOR DESIGN OF FIXED OFFSHORE PLATFORMS UNDER THREE COMPONENTS OF EARTHQUAKE MOTIONS Stavros A.Anagnostopoulos 665

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT ANALYSIS OF SINGLE STORY INDUSTRIAL BUILDING WITH THE CONSIDERATION OF THE SPACE BEHAVIOR Gu Guo-ji,Fu Ping-jun 673

EFFECTS OF DURATION AND AFTERSHOCKS ON INELASTIC DESIGN EARTHQUAKES Stephen A.Mahin 677

ESTIMATION OF FRAMEWORK-INFILL WALL INTERACTION FOR MULTISTOREY BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO CODE SEISMIC LOADINGS Camelia Ciongradi 681

SE ISMIC ANALYSI S OF A DOMED CYLINDRICAL LIQUID STORAGE TANK William A.Nash,T.Balendra,S.H.Shaaban 685

SHEARWALL FRAME INTERACTION UNDER EARTHQUAKE MOTION A.S.Arya,S.K.Thakkar-D.B.S.Sarawat. 689

DYNAMIC ANALYS IS OF ORTHOGONAL PLANAR FRAMES BY STORY TRANSFER MATRIX E.?itipitio?lu,R.B.Renda 693