Alaa Eldin Mostafa Elsayed  Farghaly <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering 
<br/><br/> 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 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Accidental eccentricity Multi story buildings  Torsion