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Earthquake engineering

seismic design approach that chooses ductile yielding zones in advance and makes every other member strong enough to stay elastic while those zones yield.

In earthquake engineering, capacity design refers to seismic design approach that chooses ductile yielding zones in advance and makes every other member strong enough to stay elastic while those zones yield. This meaning comes from Paulay (1992) in Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Buildings.[1]

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ductility3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs capacity5 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four limits yield4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Paulay, T., & Priestly, M. J. N. (1992). Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Buildings. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470172841

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