Built to Resist Earthquakes - ATC
Introduction
This Briefing Paper 1, Building Safety and
Earthquakes, consists of four parts describing
earthquakes and their effects on buildings.
Part A provides an overview of how earthquakes
occur and the ground shaking motion they
produce. It also explains why different individual
buildings respond differently to the same
ground motion. Parts B to D build on that
information to explain how earthquake motion creates
forces acting on a building, to describe the structural systems used
to resist earthquakes, and to define the “load paths”
of earthquake forces within buildings.
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