Appling recommendations of the Syrian Arab Code in choosing ground motion records to perform dynamic analysis (Time History)

Abstract

Nonlinear dynamic analysis is widely recognized as an accurate analysis technique for the design and assessment of structures. However, its use is still not common, mainly due to various issues like the selection of appropriate input ground motion records to be used for the analysis. Real records are well known to be a preferable choice with respect to artificial  ground motions, but the limited availability of real records often requires scaling them to be used for the analysis .This research includes scaling Real records to be used to perform dynamic analysis according to Syrian Arab Code requirements, in addition to determining the seismic response to a non-seismically designed structure by determining the displacement.