TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Alaa Eldin Ismail Mohamed Fawzy Elansary AU - Abdelhamid Ibrahim Zaghw , AU - Adel Galal Elattar , TI - Comparison between force based design and direct displacement based design for reinforced concrete frame or walled structures / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Alaa Eldin Ismail Mohamed Fawzy Elansary , KW - Based shear force KW - DDBD KW - FBD N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - The objective of this thesis is to apply the direct displacement based design approach (DDBD) on different reinforced concrete frame buildings with 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20 storeys. This method was also applied on a 12-storey building containing shear walls in one direction. Finally a comparison between the base shear force calculated by (DDBD) and those calculated by the force base design method (FBD) is shown ER -