CONTENTS PARTISINGLE-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM SYSTEMS 37 1 Equations of Motion, Problem Statement, and Solution Methods 39 2 Free Vibration75 3 Response to Harmonic and Periodic Excitations 101 4 Response to Arbitrary, Step, and Pulse Excitations 161 5 Numerical Evaluation of Dynamic Response 201 6 Earthquake Response of Linear Systems 233 7 Earthquake Response of Inelastic Systems 293 8 Generalized Single-Degree-of-Freedom Systems 341 PART II MULTI-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM SYSTEMS 379 9 Equations of Motion, Problem Statement, and Solution Methods 381 10 Free Vibration 437 11 Damping in Structures 483 12 Dynamic Analysis and Response of Linear Systems 503 13 Earthquake Analysis of Linear Systems 543 14 Reduction of Degrees of Freedom 629 15 Numerical Evaluation of Dynamic Response 645 16 Systems with Distributed Mass and Elasticity 665 17 Introduction to the Finite Element Method 697 PART III EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE AND DESIGN OF MULTISTORY BUILDINGS 723 18 Earthquake Response of Linearly Elastic Buildings 725 19 Earthquake Analysis Response of Inelastic Buildings 743 20 Earthquake Dynamics of Base-Isolated Buildings 777 21 Structural Dynamics in Building Codes 803 22 Structural Dynamics in Building Evaluation Guidelines 831 APPENDIX A FREQUENCY-DOMAIN METHOD OF RESPONSE ANALYSIS 851 APPENDIX BNOTATION 873 APPENDIX C ANSWERS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS 885 Index 901