Earthquake Resistant

Design
Lecture 8
Response Spectrum

Bachelor of Civil Engineering

Institute of Engineering
 Response of Structures to
Earthquake Ground Motions
Response of a SDOF with 1.0 sec
natural period Damping, ξ = 5%
Displacement Response Spectrum
Displacement Response Spectrum
Acceleration Response Spectra
Earthquake Records
Displacement Response Spectra
Damping, ξ = 5%
Acceleration Response Spectra
Damping, ξ = 5%
Frequency Content
Frequency Content
 Pseudo Spectral Acceleration

Average pseudo-acceleration spectra for different site conditions (Seed et al.)

Response Spectrum
Nomenclature
Pseudo Spectral Acceleration
PSa = ω2Sd
Pseudo-spectral velocity
PSv = ωSd
4 – way Logarithmic Plot
PSA, PSV, SD vs. PGD, PGV, PGA
 Spectral Amplification Factors for
Horizontal Ground Motion
Newmark and Hall considered a number of earthquake records and
found statistical relationships between the amplitude of the spectral
quantities and the peak ground response