RECORDED ACCELEROGRAMS AS AN ALTERNATIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE SEISMIC ACTIONIN THE P 100-1/2006 ROMANIAN SEISMIC DESIGN CODE.

A combined method of scaling the recorded accelerograms (in the range of the dominant spectral amplification periods, followed by a scaling in the field of accelerations amplitude) was developed in order to obtain: accelerograms requiring the structure to be designed, a set of design accelerograms for the application of the provisions of item "3.1.3. Recorded accelerograms." of the P 100-1/2006 Romanian seismic design code; all the accelerograms thus scaled should have an instrumental Arias type intensity of the controlled values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]