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8.3.1
Multistorey buildings subjected to horizontal load of trapezoidal
distribution
After combining formulae (5.16), (5.17) and (5.19), setting
I
xy
=0 and substituting formula
(8.1) for the lateral stiffnesses, the horizontal displacements of the equivalent column
in the principal directions are obtained as
(8.14)
and
(8.15)
where
The equivalent column develops maximum displacements in the principal directions
at
z
=0:
(8.16)
and
(8.17)
