Comparison of the Reinforced-Concrete Seismic Provisions of the Design Codes of the United States, Colombia, and Ecuador for Low-Rise Frames

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orlando Arroyo ◽  
José Barros ◽  
Lilibeth Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
The United States ◽  
Design Code ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
Seismic Performance Evaluation ◽  
Rc Frames ◽  
Weak Beam ◽  
Code Language ◽  
Drift Limit ◽  
Story Building

This paper presents a comparison between the seismic design provisions of the U.S. ASCE 7, the Colombian NSR-10, and the Ecuadorian NEC-2015 for the design of low-rise reinforced-concrete (RC) frames. The code provisions are compared, illustrating the main differences in the requirements for ductility, strength, and analysis for low-rise RC frames. A four-story building is designed according to each design code, and its performance is evaluated according to ASCE 41-13 using pushover and incremental dynamic analysis. In terms of code language, differences are observed in the strong column-weak beam requirement, the allowable drift limit, and the R and C d factors used by the codes. The results show that the NEC-2015 design is controlled by the strong column-weak beam requirement, while drift limit and strength are the controlling factors in the NSR-10 and ASCE 7 designs. The seismic performance evaluation shows adequate behavior of the three buildings, with columns in the NEC-2015 building showing a slightly better behavior.

Response of Mid-Rise Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings to the 2017 Puebla Earthquake

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 1763-1793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Arteta ◽  
Julian Carrillo ◽  
Jorge Archbold ◽  
Daniel Gaspar ◽  
Cesar Pajaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rc Buildings ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Frame ◽  
Infill Walls ◽  
Concrete Frame ◽  
Soft Story ◽  
Masonry Infills ◽  
Rc Frames ◽  
Ductility Capacity

The response of mid-rise reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in Mexico City after the 2017 Puebla Earthquake is assessed through combined field and computational investigation. The Mw 7.1 earthquake damaged more than 500 buildings where most of them are classified as mid-rise RC frames with infill walls. A multinational team from Colombia, Mexico, and the United States was rapidly deployed within a week of the occurrence of the event to investigate the structural and nonstructural damage levels of over 60 RC buildings with 2–12 stories. The results of the study confirmed that older mid-rise structures with limited ductility capacity may have been shaken past their capacity. To elucidate the widespread damage in mid-rise RC framed structures, the post-earthquake reconnaissance effort is complemented with inelastic modeling and simulation of several representative RC framing systems with and without masonry infill walls. It was confirmed that the addition of non-isolated masonry infills significantly impacts the ductility capacity and increases the potential for a soft-story mechanism formation in RC frames originally analyzed and designed to be bare systems.

Behaviour of reinforced concrete frames rehabilitated with concentric steel bracing

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Abou-Elfath ◽  
A Ghobarah
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Concrete Frames ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Frame ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
Concrete Frame ◽  
Rc Frames ◽  
Damage Indices ◽  
Steel Bracing ◽  
Story Building

The seismic performance of low-rise nonductile reinforced concrete (RC) buildings rehabilitated using concentric steel bracing is investigated. A three-story building was analysed using various ground motion records. The effectiveness of the steel bracing in rehabilitating the three-story building was examined. The effect of the distribution of the steel bracing along the height of the RC frames on the seismic performance of the rehabilitated building was studied. The behaviour of the nonductile RC frame members is represented using a beam-column element capable of modelling the strength softening and the effects of the axial force on the yield moment and the deformation capacities at peak strength of these members. The performance of the building is evaluated in terms of global and story drifts and damage indices. A simplified approach is proposed for selecting the proper brace distribution.Key words: reinforced concrete, frame, nonductile, rehabilitation, concentric steel brace.

The Time Dependent Reliability Analysis for the Deteriorated Reinforced Concrete Columns Using the Monte Carlo Simulation

2007 ◽  
Vol 345-346 ◽  
pp. 1385-1388
Author(s):  
Hee Kyu Kim ◽  
Young Kyun Hong ◽  
Jung Hyun Park
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Columns ◽  
Strength Loss ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Columns ◽  
Structural Resistance ◽  
Current Maximum ◽  
Maximum Crack ◽  
Corrosion Initiation Time ◽  
Corrosion Of Steel ◽  
Story Building

his study was prosecuted to analyze a structural resistance degradation model for the existing column in the 3-story building to be remodeled. The probabilistic random variables in this study were dealt with an initial member strength, current maximum crack width, current density and diameter of reinforcement with elapsed time and corrosion initiation time, TDRA has been performed to calculate the reliability index, the failure probability, the degradation level according to the member strength loss in reinforced concrete columns due to corrosion of steel reinforcement.

Implementing the performance-based seismic design for new reinforced concrete structures: Comparison among ASCE/SEI 41, TBI, and LATBSDC

2021 ◽  
pp. 875529302098196
Author(s):  
Siamak Sattar ◽  
Anne Hulsey ◽  
Garrett Hagen ◽  
Farzad Naeim ◽  
Steven McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Seismic Design ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Seismic Analysis ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
The United States ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Performance Based Seismic Design ◽  
New Buildings

Performance-based seismic design (PBSD) has been recognized as a framework for designing new buildings in the United States in recent years. Various guidelines and standards have been developed to codify and document the implementation of PBSD, including “ Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings” (ASCE 41-17), the Tall Buildings Initiative’s Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings (TBI Guidelines), and the Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council’s An Alternative Procedure for Seismic Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings Located in the Los Angeles Region (LATBSDC Procedure). The main goal of these documents is to regularize the implementation of PBSD for practicing engineers. These documents were developed independently with experts from varying backgrounds and organizations and consequently have differences in several degrees from basic intent to the details of the implementation. As the main objective of PBSD is to ensure a specified building performance, these documents would be expected to provide similar recommendations for achieving a given performance objective for new buildings. This article provides a detailed comparison among each document’s implementation of PBSD for reinforced concrete buildings, with the goal of highlighting the differences among these documents and identifying provisions in which the designed building may achieve varied performance depending on the chosen standard/guideline. This comparison can help committees developing these documents to be aware of their differences, investigate the sources of their divergence, and bring these documents closer to common ground in future cycles.

The Lima earthquake of October 3, 1974: Damage distribution

1977 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 1441-1472
Author(s):  
R. Husid ◽  
A. F. Espinosa ◽  
J. de las Casas
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Structural Damage ◽  
Concrete Structures ◽  
Effective Length ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Structures ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Reinforced Masonry ◽  
Water Tanks ◽  
Story Building

abstract The October 3, 1974, earthquake caused severe damage to buildings of adobe and quincha construction, and also to masonry, reinforced masonry, and reinforced-concrete structures in Lima and vicinity. Most of the damage to well-built structures was due, in part, to the lack of lateral resistance in the original design and to the fact that this earthquake had more energy around 0.4 seconds period than prior destructive earthquakes. Water tanks on the roofs of structures with four or five stories were damaged. Well-engineered single-story buildings were less affected than taller structures. Considerable structural damage to reinforced-concrete structures occurred in the districts of Barranco, La Campiña Molina, and Callao. In La Campiña three-story building partly collapsed and other buildings sustained considerable damage. In La Molina, the buildings of the Agrarian University sustained severe damage, and some collapsed. In Surco, the district adjacent to La Molina, there was no appreciable damage. In Callao, a four-story building collapsed, and the upper half of a concrete silo collapsed. In reinforced-concrete structures, column ties were frequently small in diameter, widely spaced, and not well connected. Usually, the reinforcement of resisting elements had no relation to their stiffnesses. Front columns in school buildings were restrained by high brick walls and had rather short effective lengths to allow building displacement in that direction. The windows in the rear walls gave the rear columns a much greater effective length. Therefore, a longitudinal displacement induces large shear forces in the front columns where most of the severe damage occurred. This problem was not considered in the design of these structures.

Seismic Performance Evaluation for Steel Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures

2011 ◽  
Vol 255-260 ◽  
pp. 2421-2425
Author(s):  
Qiu Wei Wang ◽  
Qing Xuan Shi ◽  
Liu Jiu Tang
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Frame Structure ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Frame ◽  
Seismic Performance Evaluation ◽  
Steel Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Frame ◽  
Structural Capacity ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures ◽  
Dynamic Nonlinear Analysis

The randomness and uncertainty of seismic demand and structural capacity are considered in demand-capacity factor method (DCFM) which could give confidence level of different performance objectives. Evaluation steps of investigating seismic performance of steel reinforced concrete structures with DCFM are put forward, and factors in calculation formula are modified based on stress characteristics of SRC structures. A regular steel reinforced concrete frame structure is analyzed and the reliability level satisfying four seismic fortification targets are calculated. The evaluation results of static and dynamic nonlinear analysis are compared which indicates that the SRC frame has better seismic performance and incremental dynamic analysis could reflect more dynamic characteristics of structures than pushover method.

scholarly journals Multiobjective optimal design of reinforced concrete frames using two metaheuristic algorithms

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4B) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Babaei ◽  
◽  
Masoud Mollayi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Optimal Design ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Steel Structures ◽  
Metaheuristic Algorithms ◽  
Rc Structures ◽  
Weighted Sum Method ◽  
Rc Frames ◽  
Single Objective

Genetic algorithm (GA) and differential evolution (DE) are metaheuristic algorithms that have shown a favorable performance in the optimization of complex problems. In recent years, only GA has been widely used for single-objective optimal design of reinforced concrete (RC) structures; however, it has been applied for multiobjective optimization of steel structures. In this article, the total structural cost and the roof displacement are considered as objective functions for the optimal design of the RC frames. Using the weighted sum method (WSM) approach, the two-objective optimization problem is converted to a single-objective optimization problem. The size of the beams and columns are considered as design variables, and the design requirements of the ACI-318 are employed as constraints. Five numerical models are studied to test the efficiency of the GA and DE algorithms. Pareto front curves are obtained for the building models using both algorithms. The detailed results show the accuracy and convergence speed of the algorithms.

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