Natural Period and Epicentral Distance Randomness Effect on the Base Shear Force

Author(s):  
S. Dorbani ◽  
M. Badaoui ◽  
D. Benouar
1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gómez ◽  
R. Ortega ◽  
J. J. Guerrero ◽  
E. González ◽  
J. P. Paniagua ◽  
...  

The resistant shear force of 13 buildings severely damaged by the 1985 Mexico City earthquake was determined by static and dynamic analyses. The results of the static analysis suggest the advisability of increasing the shear base coefficient of the 1987 Mexico City building code RDF87 from 0.4 to 0.6 in the high seismicity zones of the area. The results of the dynamic analysis show that in order to obtain the same safety level, the maximum ordinate of the design spectrum should be larger than the base shear coefficient used with the static method, leading to a 0.8 maximum ordinate for Mexico City. When the resistant shear force is plotted as a function of the natural period of each building, the response spectrum obtained is very similar to the inelastic spectrum derived from the accelerograms, considering 5% critical damping, a ductility factor of 4 and degradation in resistance from 5% to 10%. Based on these results, new design spectra are proposed for use in the high seismicity zones in Mexico City.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 605
Author(s):  
Antonio Agresta ◽  
Nicola Cavalagli ◽  
Chiara Biscarini ◽  
Filippo Ubertini

The present work aims at understanding and modelling some key aspects of the sloshing phenomenon, related to the motion of water inside a container and its effects on the substructure. In particular, the attention is focused on the effects of bottom shapes (flat, sloped and circular) and water depth ratio on the natural sloshing frequencies and damping properties of the inner fluid. To this aim, a series of experimental tests has been carried out on tanks characterised by different bottom shapes installed over a sliding table equipped with a shear load cell for the measurement of the dynamic base shear force. The results are useful for optimising the geometric characteristics of the tank and the fluid mass in order to obtain enhanced energy dissipation performances by exploiting fluid–structure interaction effects.


2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 655-662
Author(s):  
George K. Georgoussis

Building structures of low or medium height are usually designed with a pseudostatic approach using a base shear much lower than that predicted from an elastic spectrum. Given this shear force, the objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the element strength assignment (as determined by several building codes) on the torsional response of inelastic single-storey eccentric structures and to provide guidelines for minimizing this structural behaviour. It is demonstrated that the expected torque about the centre of mass (CM) may be, with equal probability, positive (counterclockwise) or negative (clockwise). This result means that the torsional strength should also be provided in equal terms in both rotational directions, and therefore the base shear and torque (BST) surface of a given system must be symmetrical (or approximately symmetrical). In stiffness-eccentric systems, appropriate BST surfaces may be obtained when a structural design is based on a pair of design eccentricities in a symmetrical order about CM, and this is shown in representative single-storey building models under characteristic ground motions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (19-20) ◽  
pp. 1646-1655
Author(s):  
Shen-Haw Ju

This study investigates the derailment of trains moving on bridges with lead rubber bearings. A moving wheel/rail axis element that couples two wheels and rails together is first developed to generate a train finite element model with 12 cars, while the sliding, sticking, and separation modes of the wheels and rails are accurately simulated. The finite element results indicate that the base shear of the bridge with lead rubber bearings is much smaller than that without lead rubber bearings. Similar to the base shear, the train derailment coefficients for the bridge with lead rubber bearings are much smaller than those without lead rubber bearings because yield lead rubber bearings during large seismic loads can change the bridge natural frequency to avoid resonance. For earthquakes with a very long dominant period, the lead rubber bearing effect to reduce the train derailment may not be obvious because the natural period of the bridge due to the full yield of lead rubber bearings can approach the dominant period of the earthquake.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Lü ◽  
Jiangang Sun ◽  
Zongguang Sun ◽  
Lifu Cui ◽  
Zhen Wang

Abstract Consider the swinging effect of spherical tank, the theory of velocity potential is adopted, and a reasonable potential function is derived according to the boundary conditions. Further, the dynamic fluid pressure, the wave height of the liquid, the shear force and the overturning moment at the bottom of the spherical tank is calculated, and a simplified dynamic model of spherical tank considering liquid sloshing and swinging effect was constructed. The seismic response was studied and compared with the results without considering the swing effect. The results show that: for Ι, II site conditions, base shear force and overturning moment of considering the swing effect is slightly smaller than when nonconsidering and the difference rate between the two is very small. III–IV site conditions, each condition value of considering the swing effect is larger than when nonconsidering and the difference rate between the two is relatively large. Aseismic design of spherical tank and the influence of swing effect should be considered if the site condition is III and IV, and if site I and II, they can be ignored.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Zhuo Zhao ◽  
Xiaowei Lu ◽  
Yu Guo ◽  
Xiaofeng Zhao

Steel water storage tanks (WSTs) are among the important components of water treatment industry facilities that are expected to remain functional and applicable after strong earthquakes. In this study, the seismic vulnerability of base-isolated steel WST is investigated. A three-dimensional finite element stick model of the targeted tank is created using OpenSees. This model is capable of reproducing convective, impulsive, and rigid responses of fluid-tank systems. Time-history responses of convective displacement, bearing displacement, and base shear force for base-isolated tank subjected to a typical ground motion are compared. Furthermore, time-history analysis based on a suite of 80 ground motions is conducted. The seismic demand models for various responses are established and the most efficient intensity measure (IM) is determined based on the dispersion and coefficient of determination. Seismic fragility curves for different responses are derived for all three damage states using cloud analysis. The results from this study reveal that (i) the convective displacement is significantly greater than bearing displacement; (ii) peak ground displacement (PGD) is the most efficient and sufficient IM for the targeted tank; and (iii) the characteristic of isolation bearing significantly influences the seismic fragilities of convective displacement and bearing displacement and has a little impact on base shear force, which makes the selection of the proper characteristic parameters for isolation bearing very essential. The analysis technique and procedure mentioned above as well as derived insights are of significance to general liquid storage tank system configuration.


2020 ◽  
Vol 215 ◽  
pp. 110658
Author(s):  
C. Medina ◽  
G.M. Álamo ◽  
J.J. Aznárez ◽  
L.A. Padrón ◽  
O. Maeso
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Author(s):  
David Newborn ◽  
Nels Sultan ◽  
Pierre Beynet ◽  
Tim Maddux ◽  
Sungwon Shin ◽  
...  

Large-scale hydraulic model tests and detail numerical model investigations were conducted on recurved wave deflecting structures to aid in the design of wave overtopping mitigation for vertical walls in shallow water. The incident wave and storm surge conditions were characteristic return period events for an offshore island on the North Slope of Alaska. During large storm events, despite depth-limited wave heights, a proposed vertical wall extension was susceptible to wave overtopping, which could potentially cause damage to equipment. Numeric calculations were conducted prior to the experimental tests and were used to establish the relative effectiveness of several recurved parapet concepts. The numerical simulations utilized the COrnell BReaking waves and Structures (COBRAS) fluid modeling program, which is a Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) model based on Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equations [1] [2]. The experimental testing was conducted in the Large Wave Flume (LWF) at Oregon State University, O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory. The experimental test directly measured the base shear force, vertical force, and overturning moment applied to the recurved parapets due to wave forcing. Wave impact pressure on the parapet and water particle velocities seaward of the wall were also measured. Results from the experimental testing include probability of exceedance curves for the base shear force, vertical force, and overturning moment for each storm condition. Qualitative comparisons between the experimental tests and the COBRAS simulations show that the numerical model provides realistic flow on and over the parapet.


1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 945-953
Author(s):  
A. M. Chandler

This paper evaluates the earthquake-resistant design provisions of the 1990 edition of the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC 1990) for asymmetric building structures subjected to combined lateral shear and torsional dynamic loadings arising from earthquake base excitation. A detailed parametric study is presented, evaluating the dynamic edge displacement response in the elastic range, for the side of the building which is adversely affected by lateral–torsional coupling. A series of buildings is studied, with realistic ranges of the fundamental natural period, structural eccentricity, and uncoupled frequency ratio. These buildings are evaluated under base loadings arising from a total of 45 strong motion records taken from earthquakes in North America, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, and Southern Pacific, categorized according to site soil conditions and the ratio a/v of peak ground acceleration to velocity. The latter parameter together with the uncoupled lateral period are found to influence strongly the combined dynamic edge response, with the greatest forces on edge members arising from earthquakes with high a/v ratio in structures with natural periods below 0.8 s. In this case the NBCC 1990 loading provisions significantly underestimate the elastic dynamic response. For buildings with periods longer than 0.8 s, the conservatism of the base shear provisions leads to overestimation of combined dynamic edge response in asymmetric systems, and this is also true in the short-period range for buildings subjected to ground motions with low a/v ratio. The NBCC 1990 provisions are reasonably conservative for short-period systems subjected to ground motions with intermediate a/v ratio. Key words: earthquakes, seismic, design, response, spectra, base, shear, torsional, provisions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Azis Wicaksana ◽  
Anis Rosyidah

Indonesia has a code for designing a seismic-resistant building, which has always improved year after year. Start from Peraturan Perencanaan Tahan Gempa Indonesia Untuk Gedung (PPTI-UG) 1983, SNI 1726:2002, SNI 1726:2012, and the latest one is SNI 1726:2019. SNI 1726:2019 experienced some renewal on designing a seismic-resistant building. This research aims to compare spectrum response design and the structural behavior between seismic-resistant building design using SNI 1726:2012 and SNI 1726:2019. The reviewed structure behaviors are base shear force (V), drift (δmax), and story drift (Δ). The study compares the detail of the structural components as well as using SNI 2847:2013 and SNI 2847:2019. The research uses a 10-story building modeling that serves as an apartment building and located in the city of Banda Aceh. Seismic analysis using a spectrum response analysis with Special Moment Resisting Frame (SMRF) structure. The result showed that the peak acceleration (Sa) for the class sites of Medium Land (SD) and Hard Land (SC) were 11% and 26%, respectively, while for Soft Land (SE), there was no increase. The shear force in SNI 1726: 2019 has increased by 19.75% for the X direction and 19.97% for the Y direction. The increase in the shear force is directly proportional to the increase in drift and story drift. In the beam detailing and beam-column connection, there were no significant changes. While in the column detailing, there are additional provisions that cause the transverse reinforcement to be tighter.


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