Seismosoft | Earthquake Engineering Solutions

Hi,
I'm working on some comparative studies for pushover and dynamic time history analysis. I found one thing strange: when I have a short period structure (period around 0.2s), the pushover analysis shows very elastic behaviour with very small target displacement (less than 10mm). However, when I try the time history analysis with the same structure, it shows high ductility with large displacement (more than 100mm). I do not have the same observation for structure with a higher period. So I want to ask if this observation is expected for the short period structure?
Thank you for your help!
Best Regards,
Aslinn

Although this is not an issue related to the use of the programs, note that the dynamic excitation of a building depends strongly on the frequency content of the record. Hence an accelerogram with high frequency content is expected to be more demanding and damaging to lower short-period structures.
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