Erratum for “Seismic Response of Rocking Oscillators on a Soft Story: Elastic Response” by Christos Zeris

The following correction should be made to the original paper:

Figs. 3(b and c) and 4, as reported in the paper, were inadvertently expressed in terms of the parameter $B/H$ instead of the geometric ratio $\alpha =H/B$, which was used in the equations. Therefore, the corrected format of Figs. 3(b and c) and 4 is revised as shown herein. Thus, for the typical case of a soft story building with a story height of 3.0 m and four $30/30\mathrm{cm}$ square columns at the base, the uncoupled period ratio $T_L/T_{\theta }$ ranges between 2.0 and 7.0, for $\alpha$ equal to 1.0 and 4.0, respectively, while, for this period range, the apparent rocking period ${\widehat{T}}_{\theta }=2\pi \sqrt{I/{\widehat{k}}_{\theta }}$ lies between 80 and 100% of the uncoupled period $T_{\theta }$, also depending on $\alpha$ [Figs. 3(b and c)].