… INTRODUCTION The enormous construction boom in office buildings over the last five …
building boom may also be a response to the recent, and largely unanticipated growth in the office…

… The remainder of office building space is occupied by the ancillary activities of firms whose
… present the more appropriate generalized Chi-square test for autocorrelation. 9. The long-run …

… cyclic tests and associated analytical studies. This paper presents results from the first set of
eight cyclic … specimens were, at best, comparable to those in the theoretical building and, at …

… building systems are utilized extensively for construction of apartments, hotels, and office
buildings… number of hotels and rental apartment buildings. The majority of these low- to mid-rise …

… A six-story office building in Chiayi City, Taiwan was used as the prototype for the test …
The test configuration allowed for the specimen to be loaded with a constant vertical force, a …

… the background, test set-up, specimens, test procedures and the test results of cyclic tests of
… The system used in the building is similar to the system studied and tested in this program …

… be employed to build small steel structures for offices, schools … Results of a full-scale shear
test programme on wall panels … wall panels tested statically, both monotonic and cyclic. The …

… prototype building was chosen to be modelled and tested under constant vertical and cyclic
in… wallets were tested according to the European norms 11, 13 and are presented in Table 2. …

… A prototype C-SPSW was designed as the seismic force resisting system for an office
building in Chiayi City in Taiwan. This office building is a six-story steel building with plan …

… This paper describes the cyclic testing of a large-scale, four-story steel plate shear wall. …
office building of 3.66 m (12 ft) typical story height, or about 60% scale for a residential building…