State-of-the-art model building code for seismic design and construction of buildings as well as recommendations for the updating of existing codes, so that ACS Member Countries be able to endow themselves with new appropriate ...

This paper will address the components of the International Code Council (ICC) as one of the most important organizations in terms of developing the model building codes for the US: the international codes. This membership-driven ...

This paper presents an evaluation of the safety of I-section steel columns designed according to the new revision of the Brazilian code for design of steel buildings (NBR8800) and to the code for loads and safety of ...

A procedure is presented for evaluating building‐code provisions for accidental torsion from analysis of earthquake‐induced motions of nominally symmetric‐plan buildings. This procedure is used to analyze the motions of ...

The easiest building parameter to determine is the elastic fundamental resonance period, or its inverse, the fundamental frequency, preferentially used in seismological studies. This period/frequency is directly related ...

The differences between the increase in building response due to accidental eccentricity predicted by code-specified static and dynamic analyses are studied for symmetric and unsymmetric single and multistorey buildings. ...