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Test of High-Rise Core Wall: Effective Stiffness for Seismic Analysis. Paper by Perry Adebar, Ahmed M. M. Ibrahim, and Michael Bryson/AUTHOR'S CLOSURE
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright American Concrete Institute Jul/Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Discussion by James M. LaFave and Dawn E. Lehman
ACI member, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Structural walls are a commonly-used seismic-force-resisting system, and reliable models to simulate their response are certainly needed (especially for walls in high-rise structures). This paper provides important information related to this need, and the authors are to be commended for their valuable contribution. Perhaps most important are the results of the scaled model test of a slender concrete structural wall ...
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