PLASTIC HINGE ROTATION OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO NEAR-FAULT EARTHQUAKES HAVING FLING STEP USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

designers of reinforced concrete structures often make use of plastic hinge deformations in order to absorn energy and increase ductility of their designs structures designed to develop plastic hinges in normal far - fault earthquakes might not respond as well to near fault earthquakes which contains fling step the objective of this study is to investigate the adequacy of artificial neural networks ANN to determine the plastic hinge rotation and ductility of RC buildings under the near fault earthquakes.

Keywords:

plastic hinge rotation , ductility , artificial neural network , near fault earthquake