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Peak Floor Acceleration (PFA) is a necessary requirement in Industrial Buildings for the design of equipment, piping, cable tray and ventilation duct supports. The seismic analysis of equipments needs the determination of PFA at the points where the equipments are fixed on the supporting structure. The classical spectral methods (SRSS, CQC) do not allow this determination which can be done in using the time integration method. This last approach needs to perform numerous calculations with various realizations of the seismic excitation. This thesis aims to present a method allowing calculating the response properties of a linear elastic shear building structure loaded by a transient...