| Abstract: | Mode superposition has become a standard tool in the treatment of seismic analysis. Its advantages are appealing to the analyst. After years of widespread use of the method, it could be said that it is well understood, both in theory and application. However, its routine application can lead to errors caused by the analyst neglecting truly representative modes in the system response. In this paper, a very simple technique is suggested for representing, under certain conditions, the effect of the higher modes: the residual mode method. The effectiveness of the method in the context of response spectrum analysis is discussed, and such analysis is illustrated by a numerical example. |
