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CAPACITY-DEMAND-DIAGRAM METHODS FOR ESTIMATING SEISMIC DEFORMATION OF INELASTIC STRUCTURES: SDF SYSTEMS Anil K. Chopra University of California Berkeley Rakesh K. Goel California State Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo A report on Research Conducted Under Grant No. CMS-9812531, U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research in Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation, from the National Science Foundation Report No. PEER-1999/02 Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center College of Engineering University of California, Berkeley April 1999 ABSTRACT The ATC-40 and FEMA-274 documents contain simplified n