Glossary: GAP.2.0.9.1.A

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GAP.2.0.9.1.

GLOSSARY

Appendage - An architectural component such as a canopy, marquee or ornamental balcony.


Base - The level at which the horizontal seismic ground motions are considered to be imparted to the
building.
Braced frame - An essentially vertical truss, or its equivalent, of the concentric or eccentric type that
is provided in a building frame or a dual system to resist lateral forces.
Building frame system - A structural system with an essentially complete space frame providing
support for vertical loads, with shear walls or braced frames providing support for lateral loads.
Concentric braced frame - A braced frame in which the members are subjected primarily to axial
forces.
Damping - The internal energy absorption characteristic of a structural system that acts to attenuate
induced free vibration.
Diaphragm - A horizontal, or nearly horizontal, system designed to transmit lateral seismic forces to
the vertical elements of the seismic resisting system.
Eccentric braced frame - Braced frame where at least one end of each brace intersects a beam at a
point away from the column-girder joint.
Fundamental period of vibration - The time it takes the predominant mode of a structure to move
back and forth when vibrating freely.
Horizontal bracing system - A horizontal truss system that serves the same function as a
diaphragm.
Moment resisting frame - A structural system frame providing support for vertical loads with
members and joints are capable of resisting lateral forces primarily by flexure.
Redundancy - The presence of multiple alternate load paths such that when one significant element
fails there is another to take over its load in the lateral force resisting system.
Shear wall - A wall, bearing or nonbearing, designed to resist seismic forces acting in the plane of
the wall.
Soft story - Story in which the lateral stiffness is less than 70% of the stiffness of the story above.
Structure - An assemblage of framing members designed to support gravity loads and resist lateral
forces.
Supplemental element - A member added to an existing lateral-force-resisting subsystem that
shares in resisting lateral loads with existing members of that subsystem.
Vertical resisting elements - Part of the structural system located in a vertical or near vertical plane
that resists lateral loads, typically a moment frame, shear wall or braced frame.

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