Sentence examples for floor rotation from inspiring English sources

For the global response analyses: max displacement, inter-storey drift (IS drift), floor rotation for each storey and base shear were compared.

It is difficult to estimate the inelastic response of torsionally irregular structures subjected to earthquake ground motions using numerical analyses because torsionally irregular structures experience both lateral displacement and floor rotation.

It is believed that floor rotation angles θ reflect the torsional behavior of the structures more realistically.

In the following, floor rotation angles will be examined and compared with the concerned torsional irregularity coefficients.

As can be seen by inspecting both Table 8 and Fig. 9, floor rotation angles significantly increase upwards, whereas the torsional irregularity coefficients decrease.

It is also observed in the preceding investigations that floor rotation angles are somewhat greater for the structures with walls near the floor edges as well as structures with higher number of stories.

A three-dimensional non-linear time history analysis model is created to capture the torsional response of the plan mass asymmetric structure to quantify the additional ductility demand, interstorey drifts and floor rotations.

Results show that the plan mass asymmetric structure performs well in terms of ductility demand, but poorly in terms of interstorey drifts and floor rotations when compared to the plan mass symmetric structure.

However, the results obtained for floor rotations are quite contradictory.

Floor rotations increase in proportion to the story numbers, i.e., maximum floor rotations occur for highest story numbers.

A new provisional definition for torsional irregularity coefficient based on floor rotations is proposed.