Abstract

BARRADAS HERNANDEZ, José E.; VARGAS COLORADO, Alejandro  and  PICAZO GAMA, Yasser. Maximum design seismic behavior factor for buildings located in the city of Veracruz, and designed with the MDOC-CFE-2015. Ing. sísm [online]. 2021, n.105, pp.59-83.  Epub Oct 04, 2021. ISSN 0185-092X.  https://doi.org/10.18867/ris.105.566.

This study shows that in the process of the seismic design of a building for values of the seismic behavior factor (Q) of three or four, according to the Manual of Civil Works Design of the Federal Electricity Commission (MDOC-CFE-2015, for its acronym in Spanish), it may occur that the serviceability limit state governs the strength design of a structure, which it should not be. Thus, the designer will have to go through an iterative process that could require many iterations, significantly increasing the work. Therefore, a function is obtained to estimate the maximum value of Q to design a building, whose implementation considerably reduces said iterations.

Keywords : Seismic behaviour factor; seismic design; Civil Works Design Handbook of the CFE 2015.