“…The representative ones are Tanabashi 1956;Housner 1956Housner , 1959Berg and Thomaides 1960;Goel and Berg 1968;Housner and Jennings 1975;Mahin and Lin 1983;Zahrah and Hall 1984;Akiyama 1985;Uang and Bertero 1990;Leger and Dussault 1992;Kuwamura et al 1994;Fajfar and Vidic 1994;Riddell and Garcia 2001;Ordaz et al 2003. Different from most of the conventional works, the earthquake input energy was formulated in the frequency domain (Page 1952;Lyon 1975, Ordaz et al 2003, Takewaki 2004a, b, 2005a-d, 2006a-c, 2007a, b, 2013a, b, Takewaki and Fujimoto 2004, Takewaki and Fujita 2009, Kishida and Takewaki 2006, 2007 to facilitate the formulation of critical excitation methods and the derivation of bounds of the earthquake input energy.…”