SHAKE-TABLE TESTS OF A TIMBER-CONCRETE LOW-DAMAGE BUILDING: ANALYTICAL/NUMERICAL vs. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
The high socio-economic impacts of moderate-to-strong earthquakes in terms of damage, dollars and downtime have highlighted the great divergence between societal expectations and the reality of modern building seismic performance. Community strongly requires raising the bar of the current seismic design philosophy, that conceives structures as ductile systems where inelasticity is concentrated within plastic hinge regions. Well complying with these methodologies many modern buildings have behaved as expected in recent earthquakes, however in many cases they were severely damaged.