Extension of direct displacement‐based design for quantifying higher mode effects on controlled rocking steel cores

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Navid Rahgozar ◽  
Nima Rahgozar
2012 ◽  
Vol 594-597 ◽  
pp. 795-799
Author(s):  
Gui Tao Chen ◽  
De Min Wei

A displacement-based optimization design method of RC structure was proposed by combining direct displacement-based design method with nonlinear programming technique. To avert the influence of target displacement, the stationary constraint displacement was presented, and the target displacement can be updated during the optimal design process. Principle of virtual work and Gaussian integral method was employed to simplify the explicit relationship between horizontal displacement and the section dimension. Comparison analysis of the local optimal results corresponding to different displacement shapes was conducted to achieve global optimal design. The numerical tests presented demonstrate the computational advantages of the discussed methods and suggesting that the proposed method is a reliably and efficiently tool for displacement-based optimal design.


2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
JagMohan Humar ◽  
Mohamed A Mahgoub

In the proposed 2005 edition of the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC), the seismic hazard will be represented by uniform hazard spectra corresponding to a 2% probability of being exceeded in 50 years. The seismic design base shear for use in an equivalent static load method of design will be obtained from the uniform hazard spectrum for the site corresponding to the first mode period of the building. Because this procedure ignores the effect of higher modes, the base shear so derived must be suitably adjusted. A procedure for deriving the base shear adjustment factors for different types of structural systems is described and the adjustment factor values proposed for the 2005 NBCC are presented. The adjusted base shear will be distributed across the height of the building in accordance with the provisions in the current version of the code. Since the code-specified distribution is primarily based on the first mode vibration shape, it leads to an overestimation of the overturning moments, which should therefore be suitably adjusted. Adjustment factors that must be applied to the overturning moments at the base and across the height are derived for different structural shapes, and the empirical values for use in the 2005 NBCC are presented.Key words: uniform hazard spectrum, seismic design base shear, equivalent static load procedure, higher mode effects, base shear adjustment factors, distribution of base shear, overturning moment adjustment factors.


2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 843-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cuiyan Kong ◽  
Mervyn J. Kowalsky

Damping scaling factors (DSFs) play an important role in direct displacement-based design (DDBD) as they provide a means to establish displacement response spectra for damping values beyond 5%. Response spectra for multiple damping values are needed for DDBD as the approach relies on equivalent linearization, expressed in the form of effective stiffness and equivalent viscous damping, to establish design forces for prescribed performance limit states. In the past, DSFs based on the Eurocode have been employed for DDBD; however, recent research has resulted in more robust DSF models. This paper examines the accuracy of the current DSF equation used in DDBD across the parameters that are important for structural design. A nonlinear regression analysis is performed based on the data obtained by the Rezaeian et al. (2014) model, and a base shear adjustment factor (SAF) is proposed for application to the DDBD base shear equation.


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