AEI Discussion

California building codes . Not sure if API has direction . Worked in Mexico and there was an earthquake! ------------------------------

The best is to model the whole complex in one model and do it with Time history. But it can make the model too big to handle for any system. Simplest approach is to assume the podium as rigid and analyze towers independently. This should be enough in ...

You might wish to refer to two guideline documents that address this. One if the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Guidelines for Performance-based Design of Tall Buildings. The other is the Los Angelese Tall Buildings Structural ...

Mahmoud, Is there something in ASCE 7 that drives the requirement to scale at top of podium? My interpretation is that scaling is intended to be at the base of the structure, not intermediate levels. I do feel that the mass of a podium can contribute ...

I am modeling a tall building composed of four vertically-separated towers sitting on a single podium. What are the recommended best practices for: (1) representing tower–podium connectivity in commercial software (ETABS / SAP2000 / OpenSees), (2) performing ...