Discussion
A single-storey building weighing 500 kN is subjected to a ground acceleration of 0.2 g. The base shear, treating it as a rigid mass, is
Answer: C
For a rigid body the inertia force is the mass times the acceleration, which equals the weight times the acceleration expressed as a fraction of g, so 0.2 times 500 is 100 kN. This is the simplest form of the seismic coefficient method.
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