Verification of Consecutive Modal Pushover Procedure for Estimating the Seismic Performances of Steel Plate Shear Walls

In this paper, we evaluated seismic performance properties of steel plate shear wall (SPSW) using Consecutive Modal Pushover Procedure (CMPP). This method is performed on 3, 6 and 9-story SPSW frames subjected to seven earthquake records which are scaled according to ASCE/SEI 7-05 provisions. We conducted nonlinear time history analysis (THA) to verify extracted outputs. The SPSW models indicate a relatively accurate estimation in nonlinear story drift and story displacement response of pushover procedures compared to that of the THA with respect to responses like shear story; while, in the high-rise model in specific, the deformation parameters are more accurate through an increase in the height of the models.