Nonlinear dynamic analysis is the most advanced structural analysis method, and it has become very widespread method to determine structural responses for seismic design or assessment. On the other hand, structural responses strongly rely on the selection of earthquake records for nonlinear dynamic analysis. In this study, several earthquake record selection strategies which impose different compatibility levels between the spectral shape of earthquake records and target spectrum are introduced. Eurocode-8 procedure is considered as reference record selection strategy. Four main engineering demand parameters (EDPs): maximum floor acceleration, global drift ratio, inter-story drift ratio and residual global drift ratio, are used to investigate the superiority of presented strategies. Nonlinear dynamic analyses of three representative low- and mid-rise RC frames are carried out to obtain the EDPs. The central tendency and dispersion of the EDPs are utilized to investigate efficiency of the strategies. Results indicated that the EDPs are correlated with dispersion of spectral accelerations. Numerical evaluations have also highlighted that the presented strategies are capable of providing consistent mean structural responses. It is thought that the presented strategies can be used to select real earthquake records for nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures.

非线性动力分析是最先进的结构分析方法，它已成为确定地震设计或评估结构响应的一种非常普遍的方法。另一方面，结构响应强烈依赖于地震记录的选择来进行非线性动力分析。在这项研究中，介绍了几种在地震记录的频谱形状和目标频谱之间施加不同兼容性级别的地震记录选择策略。Eurocode-8程序被视为参考记录选择策略。四个主要的工程需求参数（EDP）：最大楼层加速度，整体漂移率，层间漂移率和剩余整体漂移率被用来研究所提出策略的优越性。对三个具有代表性的低层和中层RC框架进行非线性动力分析，以获得EDP。利用EDP的集中趋势和分散性来研究策略的效率。结果表明，EDP与光谱加速度的色散相关。数值评估也强调了所提出的策略能够提供一致的平均结构响应。据认为，所提出的策略可用于选择真实的地震记录，以进行结构的非线性动力分析。数值评估也强调了所提出的策略能够提供一致的平均结构响应。据认为，所提出的策略可用于选择真实的地震记录，以进行结构的非线性动力分析。数值评估也强调了所提出的策略能够提供一致的平均结构响应。据认为，所提出的策略可用于选择真实的地震记录，以进行结构的非线性动力分析。