/Response-Spectra

Calculation of Response Spectra

Primary LanguagePython

Response-Spectra

The function generates:

  • pseudo-spectral acceleration (PSA)
  • pseudo-spectral velocity (PSV)
  • spectral displacement (SD) spectra for given damping ratio (xi).

Spectral ordinates are for linear-elastic single-degree-of-freedom system with unit mass.

Reference: Wang, L.J. (1996). Processing of near-field earthquake accelerograms: Pasadena, California Institute of Technology.

This code is converted from Matlab code of Dr. Erol Kalkan, P.E. Link

An example can be seen by running demo.py