For this problem use the water tower (height = 80 ft W = 100 kip k = 8.2 kip/in). The water tower initially starts at rest and is subject to the pulse excitation shown below that ends at 0.2 sec. Assume the water tower has 5% of critical damping ( = 0.05).
The water tower in the above statement is designed for the ground motion given in the design spectrum of the graph below. The design spectrum is scaled to 0.75g peak ground acceleration. Assume damping of _ = 5% for the water tower and find the design values for lateral deformation and base shear.
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