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Application of rigid-perfectly plastic spectra in improved seismic response assessment by endurance time method

Foyouzat, M. A ; Sharif University of Technology

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2015.11.025
  3. Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
  4. Abstract:
  5. The Endurance Time (ET) method is a dynamic analysis procedure in which structures are subjected to predesigned accelerograms that increase their intensity in time. The main advantage of the ET method over the standard time-history analysis, which uses ground motions as excitation, is its reduced computational effort. In this paper, the nonlinear rigid-perfectly plastic (RPP) spectra, instead of linear elastic spectra, are used to correlate the seismic hazard return period and the time in the ET analysis. Several elastic-perfectly plastic SDOF systems as well as two three-story steel frames-namely a moment-resisting frame and a frame equipped with friction dampers-are analyzed. The response curves obtained by this procedure are compared with the ones obtained by implementing nonlinear time-history analysis. Twenty-two recorded ground motions, which are scaled to multiple intensity levels, are employed to develop the response curves in the time-history method. The results suggest that applying the RPP spectra as the intensity measure is more appropriate for the intensity levels corresponding to large return periods, where the structure is expected to experience significant plastic deformations. However, for small return periods, where the structure experiences slight plastic deformations, elastic spectra provide an effective intensity measure
  6. Keywords:
  7. Response curve ; Return period ; Rigid-perfectly plastic spectra ; Time-history analysis ; Deformation ; Earthquake engineering ; Seismic response ; Structural analysis ; Structural frames ; Elastic perfectly plastic ; Endurance time methods ; Moment resisting frames ; Multiple intensities ; Nonlinear time history analysis ; Seismology ; Dynamic analysis ; Ground motion ; Plastic deformation ; Spectrum
  8. Source: Engineering Structures ; Volume 111 , 2016 , Pages 24-35 ; 01410296 (ISSN)
  9. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141029615007312