Calculation Methods for InterStory Drifts of （计算方法为InterStory飘）.pdf

Calculation Methods for Inter-Story Drifts of Building Structures J. Zhou G.B. Bu School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China K.N. Li Canny Seismic-Control Technology, Si-Park, Wuxi 214000, China SUMMARY: Inter-story drift is an important indicator of structural behaviour in performance-based seismic analysis. This paper describes the definition and contents of the inter-story drift. Existing calculation methods for harmful and harmless inter-story drift are revisited first. Their advantages and shortcomings are compared. Finally, the generalized shear deformation of region, which seems to be suitable for structures predominated by flexural-shear deformation, is introduced and evaluated. Keywords: Seismic Analysis, Harmful Inter-story Drift, Generalized Shear Deformation, Building Structure 1. INTRODUCTION Inter-story drift is one of the particularly useful engineering response quantity and indicator of structural performance, especially for high-rise buildings. However, many researchers and engineers do not notice the difference between inter-story drift and harmful inter-story drift. Also, few programmers have considered the harmful inter-story drift in their structural analysis procedure. So they may unreasonably use the inter-story drift as unique standard for structural behaviour judgment, which may eventually lead to unacceptable results and relatively conservative conclusions. As a result, considerable work has been done to investigate on the calculation methods and reasonable limit values of the inter-story drift for different structure types (Zhen and Xie, 2010; Deng et al., 2008; Wei and Wang, 2006; Xu, 2005; Xin et al., 2000; Zhang et al., 1999). However, these