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The current seismic codes neglect to provide specific design and detailing guidelines for vertical hybrid buildings and limited existing research is available in the literature, thus leaving a scientific gap that needs to be investigated. In the present work, an effort is made to fill this gap in the knowledge about the behavior of this hybrid building type in sequential earthquakes, which are found in the literature to burden the seismic structural response. Three-dimensional models of hybrid reinforced concrete\u2013steel frames are exposed to sequential ground excitations in horizontal and vertical directions while considering the elastoplastic behavior of these structural elements in the time domain. The lower reinforced concrete parts of the hybrid buildings are detailed here as corresponding to a former structure by a simple approximation. In addition, two boundary connections of the structural steel part upon the r\/c part are distinguished for examination in the elastoplastic analyses. Comparisons of the arithmetical analysis results of the hybrid frames for the examined connections are carried out. The seismic response plots of the current non-linear dynamic time-domain analyses of the 3D hybrid frames subjected to sequential ground excitations yield useful conclusions to provide guidelines for a safer seismic design of the hybrid building type, which is not covered by the current codes despite being a common practice.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computation11050102","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,19]],"date-time":"2023-05-19T00:55:29Z","timestamp":1684457729000},"page":"102","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["\u03a4he Behavior of Hybrid Reinforced Concrete-Steel Buildings under Sequential Ground Excitations"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6437-8016","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paraskevi K.","family":"Askouni","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2004). 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