| Title |
Approximate Estimate of Natural Periods for Residential Buildings having Wall-Slab Configurations |
| Abstract |
Full-scale measurements were carried out on R/C residential buildings having slab-wall configurations and simple empirical formulations based on the results of full-scale measurements were suggested. This result was compared with those predicted by other modern design guides. It follows from the comparison of the methods estimating the fundamental period in other design codes estimating that in longitudinal direction, the predictor including the percentage of shear walls is better than only the simple building width-dependent predictor, and therefore, the predictor T= (B/Bs)+ is appropriate for this set of data. Whereas, in transverse direction, the values obtained from some regulations and the proposed equation are similar. |