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Why do period and damping ratio affect acceleration?
In the table above, the period of the structure $(T)$, the acceleration coefficient on the structure ($g$ in terms of gravitational acceleration) $Sa(T)$, The damping ratio is expressed as $ζ$ .
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How does one explain this pattern generated by earthquake waving driving a pendulum?
How to explain this pattern generated by earthquake wave driving a pendulum? Specially, there are three groups of curves that look categorically different:
1) The group of curves outside the olive-...
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