scholarly journals Seismic Performance of RC Column Using Fiber Hinge Concept with Time Integration Method

2022 ◽  
Vol 961 (1) ◽  
pp. 012072
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kareem Hamzah

Abstract Recent seismic events showed the importance of understanding the structural performance of RC column that can be predicted numerically. The accuracy of column performance depends on type of the analysis and representation of seismic effect. Therefore, in this paper a nonlinear time history analysis has been performed to assess the seismic performance of bridge column using fiber hinge concept with time integration method using sap2000 software. A long bridge RC column is utilized and subjected to seismic excitation. The column has been divided into different size and numbers of fiber to assess the accuracy of the analysis and time consuming to analyze each case of fiber hinges. In addition, this paper used three-time integration methods, Newmark, Hilber-Hughes-Taylor, and Chung & Hulbert to predict the most suitable method to be used in column seismic analysis. The time history displacement and base shear in addition to moment rotation of the column are the most important factors to evaluate the column seismic performance. The analysis results demonstrated that the most suitable time integration method is Hilber-Hughes-Taylor for such type of the analysis since it gives more stable base shear result than other two methods. Furthermore, the results indicated that the accuracy of seismic performance increased by number of fibers incremental. Moreover, the number of steel fibers should be equal to the number of bars with same area and location. The unconfined and confined concrete should be divided into small areas to get accurate prediction of column seismic performance.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Jinyue Zhang ◽  
Lei Shi ◽  
Tianhao Liu ◽  
De Zhou ◽  
Weibin Wen

In this work, a study of a three substeps’ implicit time integration method called the Wen method for nonlinear finite element analysis is conducted. The calculation procedure of the Wen method for nonlinear analysis is proposed. The basic algorithmic property analysis shows that the Wen method has good performance on numerical dissipation, amplitude decay, and period elongation. Three nonlinear dynamic problems are analyzed by the Wen method and other competitive methods. The result comparison indicates that the Wen method is feasible and efficient in the calculation of nonlinear dynamic problems. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation illustrate that the Wen method has desirable solution accuracy and can be a good candidate for nonlinear dynamic problems.


2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
B. Athamnia ◽  
A. Ounis ◽  
M. Abdeddaim

AbstractThis study focuses on the soft-storey behavior of RC structures with lead core rubber bearing (LRB) isolation systems under near and far-fault motions. Under near-fault ground motions, seismic isolation devices might perform poorly because of large isolator displacements caused by large velocity and displacement pulses associated with such strong motions. In this study, four different structural models have been designed to study the effect of soft-storey behavior under near-fault and far-fault motions. The seismic analysis for isolated reinforced concrete buildings is carried out using a nonlinear time history analysis method. Inter-story drifts, absolute acceleration, displacement, base shear forces, hysteretic loops and the distribution of plastic hinges are examined as a result of the analysis. These results show that the performance of a base isolated RC structure is more affected by increasing the height of a story under nearfault motion than under far-fault motion.


2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornel Ilinca ◽  
Răzvan Vârvorea ◽  
Adrian Popovici

Abstract The seismic analysis of a buttress dam with 73.50 m height is performed by the spectral analysis method and the direct time integration method. An accelerogram with 0.1g maximum acceleration was applied horizontally, in the upstream - downstream direction, at the bottom of the dam-foundation finite element mesh. The hydrodynamic effect of the reservoir was considered according to the added mass procedure (Westergaard relation). ABAQUS software was used to make the analyses. The same type of finite element C3D20R was used for the mesh of the dam body and of the foundation. The comparison of the results is made on the displacements, the stress state and the sliding stability on the dam-foundation contact in the full reservoir hypothesis. The comprehensive analysis concluded that both methods had provided close results for the considered case study. The spectral analysis method revealed itself to be more conservative compared to the direct time integration method.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 1250068 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHIH-HSUN YIN

A family of new explicit time-integration method is proposed herein, which inherits the numerical characteristics of any existing implicit Runge–Kutta algorithms for a linear conservative system. Based on an exact derivation of the increment of mechanical energy, the method proposed is demonstrated to be unconditionally stable. Also, the stability condition of the proposed method is derived when applied to solving a nonlinear system. The characteristics of the proposed method are investigated by observing the mechanical-energy time history of a nonlinear conservative system. The numerical results can be explained by the stability condition derived in the nonlinear regime. Finally, the computational accuracy and efficiency between the Newmark time integration method and the proposed explicit method are compared in solving the dynamic response of a couple of linear oscillators.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. F. Ayoub ◽  
M. Youakim ◽  
P. Nady

<p>Precast girder bridges are very attractive structural systems to bridge engineers due to their construction rapidity. In their deck arrangement a gap is introduced between the precast girders and the inverted pier cross head. Under longitudinal seismic effect the gap can be closed and the superstructure movement will be locked by the web of the pier cross-head. Usually a rigorous and sensitive non-linear time history analysis will be required for this type of structures. In this paper, a simplified approach will be introduced to estimate the base shear force transmitted to the bridge substructure under seismic loading. In the present approach the modelling of the elastomeric bearing element stiffness is modified in such a way that under earthquake loading the relative displacement between top level and bottom level of bearing equals to the gap value. The seismic analysis with slight, moderate and sharp earthquake accelerations is performed based on the response spectrum analysis as presented by AASHTO LRFD.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1932
Author(s):  
Weixuan Wang ◽  
Qinyan Xing ◽  
Qinghao Yang

Based on the newly proposed generalized Galerkin weak form (GGW) method, a two-step time integration method with controllable numerical dissipation is presented. In the first sub-step, the GGW method is used, and in the second sub-step, a new parameter is introduced by using the idea of a trapezoidal integral. According to the numerical analysis, it can be concluded that this method is unconditionally stable and its numerical damping is controllable with the change in introduced parameters. Compared with the GGW method, this two-step scheme avoids the fast numerical dissipation in a low-frequency range. To highlight the performance of the proposed method, some numerical problems are presented and illustrated which show that this method possesses superior accuracy, stability and efficiency compared with conventional trapezoidal rule, the Wilson method, and the Bathe method. High accuracy in a low-frequency range and controllable numerical dissipation in a high-frequency range are both the merits of the method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2090 (1) ◽  
pp. 012145
Author(s):  
Ryuma Honda ◽  
Hiroki Suzuki ◽  
Shinsuke Mochizuki

Abstract This study presents the impact of the difference between the implicit and explicit time integration methods on a steady turbulent flow field. In contrast to the explicit time integration method, the implicit time integration method may produce significant kinetic energy conservation error because the widely used spatial difference method for discretizing the governing equations is explicit with respect to time. In this study, the second-order Crank-Nicolson method is used as the implicit time integration method, and the fourth-order Runge-Kutta, second-order Runge-Kutta and second-order Adams-Bashforth methods are used as explicit time integration methods. In the present study, both isotropic and anisotropic steady turbulent fields are analyzed with two values of the Reynolds number. The turbulent kinetic energy in the steady turbulent field is hardly affected by the kinetic energy conservation error. The rms values of static pressure fluctuation are significantly sensitive to the kinetic energy conservation error. These results are examined by varying the time increment value. These results are also discussed by visualizing the large scale turbulent vortex structure.


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