Energy Response Analysis of Continuous Beam Bridges with Friction Pendulum Bearing by Multihazard Source Excitations

Figure 7

Comparison of time history of the energy response in different time steps,  = 2.84 s, μ = 0.05; El Centro seismic wave; peak acceleration is 0.4. (a) Δt = 0.02 s, (b) Δt = 0.01 s, (c) Δt = 0.005 s, and (d) Δt = 0.0025 s.

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