Responses of a tall building in Los Angeles, California as inferred from local and distant earthquakes
Earthquake Spectra
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Abstract
Increasing inventory of tall buildings in the United States and elsewhere may be subjected to motions generated by near and far seismic sources that cause long-period effects. Multiple sets of records that exhibited such effects were retrieved from tall buildings in Tokyo and Osaka ~ 350 km and 770 km from the epicenter of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. In California, very few tall buildings have been instrumented. An instrumented 52-story building in downtown Los Angeles recorded seven local and distant earthquakes. Spectral and system identification methods exhibit significant low frequencies of interest (~0.17 Hz, 0.56 Hz and 1.05 Hz). These frequencies compare well with those computed by transfer functions; however, small variations are observed between the significant low frequencies for each of the seven earthquakes. The torsional and translational frequencies are very close and are coupled. Beating effect is observed in at least two of the seven earthquake data.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Responses of a tall building in Los Angeles, California as inferred from local and distant earthquakes |
| Series title | Earthquake Spectra |
| DOI | 10.1193/050515EQS065M |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 2016 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute |
| Contributing office(s) | Earthquake Science Center |
| Description | 23 p. |
| First page | 1821 |
| Last page | 1843 |
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