Abstract
Nonlinear earthquake response of reinforced concrete building frames to a recorded ground motion was simulated by newly developed computer-actuator On-line system and compared with the computer simulation by the program OS-1 D. This paper is the first part of five serial reports and describes the overall objective of the project and the detail of the methodology used in the simulation. The On-line system is an electro-hydraulic jack system having the On-line computer controlling part and the computer simulation by the program OS-1 D is a simplified fiber model analysis based on the nonlinear stress-strain relationships of concrete and steel reinforcement.
