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Revisiting the accidental eccentricity provision in seismic design codes /

Alaa Eldin Mostafa Elsayed Farghaly

Revisiting the accidental eccentricity provision in seismic design codes / إعادة تقييم لا مركزية الإلتواء الإضافية فى كودات التصميم الزلزالى Alaa Eldin Mostafa Elsayed Farghaly ; Supervised Osman M. O. Ramadan , Sameh S. F. Mehanny - Cairo : Alaa Eldin Mostafa Elsayed Farghaly , 2010 - 140 P. : plans ; 30cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering

The accidental eccentricity provision is revisited in order to evaluate the suitability of its broadly assumed worldwide code value of 5% for multi-story buildings. The question is whether such value realistically models the accidental torsion at any story of a multi-story building irrespective of the number of floors above, or whether it is just a conservative ypper bound that does not mimic the actual response



Accidental eccentricity Multi story buildings Torsion