PSD TEST ON 4-STORY R C BUILDING DESIGNED ACCORDING TO EUROCODES/

An experimental program was conducted on a four-story full-scale reinf orced concrete building designed as a ductility class ''high'' structu re in accordance with Eurocodes 2 and 8. The activity was defined as p art of a cooperative research program by the European Association of S tructural Mechanics Laboratories. The pseudodynamic tests were conduct ed for a serviceability-level and high-level earthquake-1.5 times the reference accelerogram. The results of the pseudodynamic tests are pre sented. General conclusions about the performance of the structure are drawn, with attention paid to the effects of the adoption of the new high-strength B500 Tempcore steel. The results make it possible to dis cuss the influence of the modeling parameters to be used in predicting the behavior of this class of structures. Effects such as the pullout and the slippage of the bars in the joints, or the participation of t he slab to the global stiffness were found to play a fundamental role.