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A horizontal or nearly horizontal system acting to transfer lateral forces to the vertical resisting elements. Diaphragms are classified as either flexible or rigid.
Industry:Construction
Those architectural, electrical, and mechanical systems and their components that require design in accordance with Sec. 6.1 and that have a component importance factor (I ) greater than 1.
Industry:Construction
Earthquake effects that are two-thirds of the corresponding maximum considered earthquake.
Industry:Construction
The earthquake effects that buildings and structures are specifically proportioned to resist as defined in Sec. 4.1.
Industry:Construction
The deformation at which failure occurs and which shall be deemed to occur if the sustainable load reduces to 80 percent or less of the maximum strength.
Industry:Construction
Two times the initial deformation that occurs at a load equal to 40 percent of the maximum strength.
Industry:Construction
An element that is neither a low deformability or a high deformability element.
Industry:Construction
An element whose deformability is not less than 3.5 when subjected to four fully reversed cycles at the limit deformation.
Industry:Construction
