Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Pounding Response for Adjacent Inelastic MDOF Structures Based on Dimensional Analysis

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Displacement, velocity, pounding force histories, and hysteresis curves for the first story of adjacent buildings. (a) Displacement histories. (b) Pounding force histories. (c) Velocity histories. (d) Hysteresis curve of the left structure. (e) Hysteresis curve of the right structure.

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