It is natural to have T>Tb on 6 floors in the 1st degree earthquake zone, this is what is desired in the spectrum anyway, avoiding the Ta-Tb range, keeping the building away from resonance... the building has both sufficient ductility and You will provide the ductility that will be of sufficient rigidity with modeling and reinforcement, and you will create a building that will dissipate enormous energy, and you will also attach importance to rigidity and prevent 2nd order effects, etc... What happens to 4-6 storey buildings at horizontal load shows the importance of the spectrum...[ /quote] Soil spectrum is really important. If you examine the recent Van earthquakes, in the buildings destroyed as a percentage (x-storey destroyed / x-storey total building), 4-storey buildings are in the 1st place, 5-storey buildings are in the second place, while in 6-storey buildings, the percentage of destruction is very small 6 and When the Prime Minister went to Van, it was said that you are still building 8-storey buildings... We are used to building 4-5-storey buildings in Turkey, so how few floors are there? We think it's that safe. As for rigidity; In order to move a 6-storey building away from the dominant period of the Z3 floor class, we need to build delicate buildings. Even in buildings close to a square shape that sit on a large area, it is necessary to design very very delicately. How true this is is a matter of debate. For this, I wrote that the stiffness is relatively low. It is certainly not possible to say that it is less or insufficient. In my opinion, the healthiest way to avoid resonance is to determine the number of floors of the building in a way that avoids the ground period... This doesn't seem possible under the conditions of Turkey at the moment.... Good work everyone....