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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 nonlinear analysis procedures to determine the displacement demand imposed on a building expected to deform inelastically. The Nonlinear Static Procedure in these documents, based on the capacity spectrum method, involves several approximations: The lateral force distribution for pushover analysis and conversion of these results to the capacity diagram are based only on the fundamental vibration mode of the elastic system. The earthquake-induced deformation of an inelastic SDF system is estimated by an iterative method requiring analysis of a sequence of equivalent linear systems, thus avoiding the dynamic analysis of the inelastic SDF system. This last approximation is first evaluated in this report, followed by the development of an improved simplified analysis procedure, based on capacity and demand diagrams, to estimate the peak deformation of inelastic SDF systems. Several deficiencies in ATC-40 Procedure A are demonstrated. This iterative procedure did not converge for some of the systems analyzed. It converged in many cases, but to a deformation much different than dynamic (nonlinear response history or inelastic design spectrum) analysis of the inelastic system. The ATC-40 Procedure B always gives a unique value of deformation, the same as that determined by Procedure A if it converged. The peak deformation of inelastic systems determined by ATC-40 procedures are shown t