Re: Seismic Design

From: <Christopher>
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 22:44:00 EDT

>Please provide me some guidelines whether frequency to be considered
>for seismic anaysis using response spectrum method
You need to do some reading on the response spectrum method. The method is based on normal mode theory applied to structural mode shapes. Frequency is fundamental to the method.

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