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A building is 30 m. high and has a total dead load of 45,000 kN. If the zone factor is 0.40, importance factor of 1.25, site coefficient of 1.0, CT = 0.075 and Rw factor of 10,

Compute the natural period in sec.
Compute the base shear
Compute the lateral numerical coefficient C.

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