December 2014

Investigation of pounding based on finite element analyses of two adjacent buildings, considering new equation of motion to measure impact

Building pounding philosophy is the collision of adjacent buildings when earthquake take place and buildings show lateral movement. Providing suitable separation distance, impact force precludes and reduces the failure of construction elements. In this paper, building pounding between two reinforced concrete buildings with insufficient gap size is numerically investigated in order to study the impact force during...

Author(s): Seyed M. Khatami, O. Rezaei Far and S. Karimi