Abstract
We proposed a hysteresis characteristics model for a single-degree-of-freedom wooden house with a single spring to perform earthquake response analyses. We modified 'Takeda-Slip model' to represent performance of wooden houses. We decided model's parameters based on the results of shaking table tests and investigated whether seismic response analyses using the proposed model could reproduce the experimental results. We found that the seismic response analyses could reproduce the experimental results. We also investigated the method of deciding model's parameters based on characteristics of bearing walls composing a wooden house. We made hysteresis characteristics of a whole structure from combining hysteresis characteristics of each bearing wall, and compared them with the experimental and analytical results using hysteresis characteristics model based on the result of a shaking table test. We got similar results, so we found proposed 'modified Takeda-Slip model' was useful for seismic response analyses of wooden houses.
