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 second story of adjacent buildings. (a) Displacement histories. (b) Pounding histories. (c) Velocity histories. (d) Hysteresis curve of the left structure. (e) Hysteresis curve of the right structure.

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