Effects of the near-fault acceleration and non-acceleration pulses on the inter-story drift ratio of the building structures

In this study, effects of two types of velocity pulses: visible acceleration pulses (accpulses) and succession of high-frequency one-sided acceleration spikes (nonaccpulses) are investigated on inter-story drift ratio of multi-story buildings. For this purpose, it is considered a simplified model of multi-story buildings as a continuous cantilever beam including a combination of flexural cantilever beam and shear cantilever beam. Forty-one …