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<strong>ART</strong><br />

25. number of absolute effective cycles (peak counting<br />

excluding non-zero crossings) in acceleration timehistory<br />

(Hancock & Bommer, 2005);<br />

26. number of equivalent effective cycles using userdefined<br />

damage exponent (peak counting excluding<br />

non-zero crossings) in acceleration time-history<br />

(Hancock & Bommer, 2005);<br />

27. number of absolute effective cycles (rainflow counting<br />

technique) in acceleration time-history (Hancock &<br />

Bommer, 2005);<br />

28. number of equivalent effective cycles using userdefined<br />

damage exponent (rainflow counting<br />

technique) in acceleration time-history (Hancock &<br />

Bommer, 2005);<br />

29. predominant spectral period (or frequency) defined by<br />

Rathje et al. (2004) as the period at which the<br />

maximum spectral acceleration (using user-defined<br />

damping level) occurs;<br />

30. mean period (or frequency) defined by Rathje et al.<br />

(2004) as:<br />

T m<br />

=<br />

∑ C 2 i<br />

1/ f i<br />

<br />

i<br />

∑<br />

i<br />

C i<br />

2<br />

where C i are Fourier amplitudes at frequencies f i ;<br />

31. smoothed predominant spectral period (or frequency)<br />

defined by Rathje et al. (2004) as:<br />

∑ T i<br />

ln[ SA T i<br />

i PGA ]<br />

T 0<br />

=<br />

∑<br />

i<br />

ln[ SAT i<br />

PGA ]<br />

for T i with SA/PGA≥ 1.2 where T i are periods at which<br />

the spectral accelerations SA are defined (using userdefined<br />

damping level);<br />

32 Issue C

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