Seismic Design Aids for Nonlinear Pushover Analysis of Reinforced Concrete and Steel Bridges

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Ger ◽  
Franklin Y. Cheng
2020 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 03005
Author(s):  
Lukman Murdiansyah ◽  
Robby Permata ◽  
Donald Essen

This paper presents an evaluation study of the performance of reinforced concrete arch bridge structures under earthquake load. The study is aimed to investigate the seismic performance of Wreksodiningrat Bridge, located in the province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This bridge is a three spans reinforced concrete arch bridge with a main span length of 75 m and two side spans with a length of 35 m, respectively. This study is a part of a large project carried out by the Ministry of Public Works to study the impact of the new 2016 Indonesia Seismic Design Code for Bridges (SNI 2833:2016). The main objective of this paper is to determine the displacement demands due to earthquake load based on the new seismic code design for bridges, SNI 2833:2016. In addition, demand capacity ratios (D/C) of the main structural components, such as the compression arch and main column (pier) at the fixed support, are also reviewed in this paper. The analysis was carried out using nonlinear modal pushover analysis. The arch bridge modeling is three dimensional, where structural elements such as beams, columns, and compression arches are modeled as frame elements. The plastic hinges are modeled as fiber hinges with unconfined and confined concrete material stress-strain relationship following Mander formula. The analysis result shows that the displacement demands of the bridge are 2.9 cm and 20 cm in the longitudinal and transverse direction, respectively. The D/C ratios of the compression arch due to demand earthquake load are 0.74 and 0.95 in the longitudinal and transverse direction of the bridge, while the D/C ratios of the pier are 0.15 and 0.80 in the longitudinal and transverse direction. Based on the above results, it is concluded that the studied bridge is able to withstand the seismic load requirements in the new Indonesia Seismic Design Code.


2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 616-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
JagMohan Humar ◽  
Farrokh Fazileh ◽  
Mohammad Ghorbanie-Asl ◽  
Freddy E. Pina

A displacement based method for the seismic design of reinforced concrete shear wall buildings of regular shape is presented. For preliminary design, approximate estimates of the yield and ultimate displacements are obtained, the former from simple empirical relations, and the latter to keep the ductility demand within ductility capacity and to limit the maximum storey drift to that specified by the codes. For a multi-storey building, the structure is converted to an equivalent single-degree-of-freedom system using an assumed deformation shape that is representative of the first mode. The required base shear strength of the system is determined from the inelastic demand spectrum corresponding to the ductility demand. In subsequent iterations a pushover analysis for the force distribution based on the first mode is used to obtain better estimates of yield and ultimate displacements taking into account stability under P–Δ effect. A multi-mode pushover analysis is carried out to find more accurate estimates of the shear demand.


Mechanika ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-152
Author(s):  
Mário Rui Tiago Arruda ◽  
Bruno Lopes ◽  
Mário Ferreira ◽  
Tadas Zingaila

The aim of this work is to show the main differences which exist, taking in to account the influence of the type of finite element used, when performing pushover analysis of reinforced concrete structures. The non-linear analysis was performed using FE software SAP2000, and the results were extracted from models including Frame and Shell elements, respectively. Several reinforced concrete structures were modelled with Frame elements and Shell elements, which will be further presented. Therefore, it was possible to validate the results obtained from the analysis, also to identify certain restrictions according to the type of finite element used in the modelling of the resistant walls. In the first phase, three isolated structural walls were modelled with distinct geometries. The first one presents a rectangular shape, the second – “L” shape and the third one “U” shape. The application of pushover analysis through the different examples presented in this document, intends to validate the results obtained for the Shell elements. Subsequently, the same kind of analysis was performed on a building. These examples intend to show that the performance of ductility is strongly dependent from the type of element, which is not taken into account in the pushover analysis nowadays. N2 method was applied to all examples, in order to understand the differences in the structures seismic design, according to the type of element used in the modelling. The results are compared, and the differences are identified. As well as, the limitations of applicability of Shell elements in the modelling of structural walls were determined.


Author(s):  
G. Michele Calvi ◽  
Daniel P. Abrams ◽  
Hugo Bachmann ◽  
Shaoliang Bai ◽  
Patricio Bonelli ◽  
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Author(s):  
Herian Leyva ◽  
Juan Bojórquez ◽  
Edén Bojórquez ◽  
Alfredo Reyes-Salazar ◽  
Julián Carrillo ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 163-167 ◽  
pp. 1757-1761
Author(s):  
Yong Le Qi ◽  
Xiao Lei Han ◽  
Xue Ping Peng ◽  
Yu Zhou ◽  
Sheng Yi Lin

Various analytical approaches to performance-based seismic design are in development. Based on the current Chinese seismic codes,elastic capacity calculation under frequent earthquake and ductile details of seismic design shall be performed for whether seismic design of new buildings or seismic evaluation of existing buildings to satisfy the seismic fortification criterion “no damage under frequent earthquake, repairable under fortification earthquake, no collapse under severe earthquake”. However, for some special buildings which dissatisfy with the requirements of current building codes, elastic capacity calculation under frequent earthquake is obviously not enough. In this paper, the advanced performance-based seismic theory is introduced to solve the problems of seismic evaluation and strengthening for existing reinforced concrete structures, in which story drift ratio and deformation of components are used as performance targets. By combining the features of Chinese seismic codes, a set of performance-based seismic design method is established for reinforced concrete structures. Different calculation methods relevant to different seismic fortification criterions are adopted in the proposed method, which solve the problems of seismic evaluation for reinforced concrete structures.


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