scholarly journals Numerical Modeling of Soil-Pile-Interaction with Near and Far Field Earthquake's Effects

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 351-364
Author(s):  
Mohammad Shahmohammadi Mehrjerdi ◽  
Ahmad Ali Fallah ◽  
S.T. Tabatabaei Aghda

This paper studies Near and Far Field effects of the response of a column-pile to earthquakes considering Dynamic-Soil-Structure-Interaction (DSSI) effects in soft clay (Vs<180 m/s ) and stiff clay (180<Vs<375 m/s). Opensees software that can simulate the dynamic time history analysis is used. Both kinematic and inertial interactions are considered and Finite Element Method (FEM) is used to solve DSSI. The direct method applies to 3D modeling of the layered soil and column-pile. A Pressure Independ Multi Yield Surface Plasticity Model is used to simulate different kinds of clay behavior.  Time history seismic analyses provide for the mass and stiffness matrices to evaluate dynamic structural response with and without directivity effects for Near and Far Field earthquakes. Results show that the Multi-Yield-Surface-Kinematic-Plasticity-Model can be used instead of bilinear springs between piles and clay soil, for both Near Field and Far Field earthquakes. In addition, comparing Near and Far Field analyses, acceleration response spectrum at the top of the structure in the Far Field increases with the softness of the soil more than that in the Near field.

2013 ◽  
Vol 756-759 ◽  
pp. 4482-4486
Author(s):  
Chun Gan ◽  
Xue Song Luo

In recent years, frequent earthquakes have caused great casualties and economic losses in China. And in the earthquake, damage of buildings and the collapse is the main reason causing casualties. Therefore, in the design of constructional engineering, a seismicity of architectural structure is the pressing task at issue. Through time history analysis method, this paper analyzes the time history of building structural response and then it predicts the peak response of mode by response spectrum analysis. Based on this, this paper constructs a numerical simulation model for the architecture by using finite element analysis software SATWE. At the same time, this paper also calculates the structure seismic so as to determine the design of each function structure in architectural engineering design and then provides reference for the realization of earthquake-resistant building.


2020 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 05026
Author(s):  
Fauzan ◽  
Afdhalul Ihsan ◽  
Mutia Putri Monika ◽  
Zev Al Jauhari

The amount of potential investment in Padang City, Indonesia since 2017 attracted many investors to contribute to the city. One of the investments is a 12-story hotel that will be constructed in By Pass Street of the city. The hotel is located in a high seismic zone area, so the seismic base isolation has been proposed to be used in the hotel building. The main aim of using a seismic base isolation device is to reduce the inertia forces introduced in the structure due to earthquakes by shifting the fundamental period of the structure out of dangerous resonance range and concentration of the deformation demand at the isolation system. An analytical study on the Reinforced Concrete (RC) hotel building with and without rubber bearing (RB) base isolation is carried out using the response spectrum and time history analysis methods. The results show that internal forces and inter-story drift of the building with high damping rubber bearing (HDRB) are lower than that of the fixed base with a remarkable margin. From this study, it is recommended to use the HDRB base isolation for medium and high rise buildings with soft soil in Padang City, Indonesia.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 1450094 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Morteza Zinati Yazdi ◽  
Mohammad Taghi Kazemi

Heavy damages on structures caused by near field earthquakes in recent years has brought serious attention to this problem. An examination of previous records has shown significant differences for near field earthquakes, including a large energy pulse, unlike far field earthquakes. But as a general rule, the effects of near field earthquakes have been ignored in most building codes. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of near field earthquakes on reinforced concrete (RC) moment frames. To achieve this goal, the Erduran damage index, an efficient way to calculate damage, was employed to analyze two 4- and 8-story RC moment frame buildings. The buildings with moderate and high ductility were designed by the strength criteria. Seven pairs of near field and far field earthquakes were scaled and used for dynamic nonlinear time history analysis. Using Erduran’s beam and column damage index, respectively, based on rotation and drift, the results from both near and far field earthquakes were compared. Moreover, for better assessment, 4-story buildings were evaluated from the performance based viewpoint of design. We observe from the results that most of the components of the structures under near field earthquakes sustained severe damages and in some cases even component failure. Components of the structures under near field earthquakes suffered from 30% more of damage, on average, than that under far field earthquakes.


2016 ◽  
Vol 845 ◽  
pp. 274-282
Author(s):  
Fauzan ◽  
Febrin Anas Ismail ◽  
Zev Al Jauhari

Keywords: Earthquake, Internal Forces, Displacement, Response Spectrum Analysis, Time History Analysis, PoundingAbstract. Teaching Hospital is an educational facilitiy for students in the Faculty of Medicine and also as a health services for the general public. The hospital building must be built in accordance with earthquake-safe building standards, so that buildings are not damaged in an earthquake. Andalas University Hospital was built at Padang in 2014 which was designed using Indonesian Seismic Code SNI 03-1726-2002 with quakes zone 6. Since 2012, a new Seismic Code, SNI 1726-2012, was issued and all the buildings should be designed by using the new code. Therefore, the authors are interested in analyzing the structural response of the hospital building by using new seismic code SNI 1726-2012. The results, then, were compared with the responses of the structure which calculated by using SNI 03-1726-2002.The results of analysis show that the structural responses in the internal forces and displacement by using SNI 1726-2012 was higher than those using SNI 03-1726-2002. In this study, an analysis of potential Pounding was also conducted by using dynamic analysis Time History method. The analytical result shows that there is no pounding between adjacent buildings at Andalas University Hospital Buildings.


2013 ◽  
Vol 438-439 ◽  
pp. 1474-1480
Author(s):  
Ju Fang Zhong ◽  
Long Wei Zhang ◽  
Jun Wei Liang

The key to near-field strong ground motion simulation based on stochastic finite fault method is to determine the spectrum of ground motion. We present an improved source spectrum model for simulation near-field strong ground motion acceleration time history. We combine Masudas source spectrum model with scaling factor Hij to keep radiation energy conservation and reflect the energy decrease with frequency at low to mid frequencies. We calculate the Fourier amplitude spectrum Fa, accelerate response spectrum Sa, velocity response spectrum Sv and displacement response spectrum Sd of simulation time histories. By comparative analysis of the laws of spectrum values (Fa, Sa, Sv, Sd) with the variation of frequency or period, we discusses the effects of sub-fault dividing scheme, the method of determining scale factor and source spectrum model on spectrum values (Fa, Sa, Sv, Sd). The results show that sub-fault dividing scheme has slightly effect on the model presented in this paper, and the model enable to reflect the sink laws of source spectrum value in mid-to-low frequencies well. We demonstrate that the improved model is superior to other commonly used models.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Vatanshenas

Earthquake is considered as the main destructive and collapsing factor of structures in near-fault zones, so design new structures and retrofitting existing structures in order to decrease structural responses is an unavoidable matter. One of the structural response reduction methods is using of TMDs. In this paper, a two-dimensional 10-storey steel structure as three structural models without PTMD, with a PTMD at the highest level and ten PTMDs with different characteristics at all levels with the Modal-FNA time-history analysis method under acceleration records with directivity and without directivity of Parkfield 2004 earthquake at the angle of the maximum acceleration response in the first mode period of structure after rotating the acceleration records at the station with directivity and its corresponding angle at the station without directivity were compared to each other in terms of the roof displacement, the input energy and the base shear. It was observed that the structure behavior in the case of using only one PTMD is better, but in the case where ten PTMDs with relative smaller masses were used compared to the case where only one PTMD was used is also with roof displacement reduction.


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 1913-1930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irmela Zentner

The random vibration theory offers a framework for the conversion of response spectra into power spectral densities (PSDs) and vice versa. The PSD is a mathematically more suitable quantity for structural dynamics analysis and can be straightforwardly used to compute structural response in the frequency domain. This allows for the computation of in-structure floor response spectra and peak responses by conducting only one structural analysis. In particular, there is no need to select or generate spectrum-compatible time histories to conduct the analysis. Peak response quantities and confidence intervals can be computed without any further simplifications such as currently used in the response spectrum method, where modal combination rules have to be derived. In contrast to many former studies, the Arias intensity-based definition of strong-motion duration is adopted here. This paper shows that, if the same definitions of strong-motion duration and modeling assumptions are used for time history and RVT computations, then the same result can be expected. This is illustrated by application to a simplified model of a reactor building.


Author(s):  
Zuber Ahmed ◽  
Esar Ahmed

The concept of cable-stayed bridges dates back to the seventeenth century. Due to their aesthetic appearance, efficient utilization of material, and availability of new construction technologies, cable-stayed bridges have gained much popularity in the last few decades. After successful construction of the Sutong Bridge, a number of bridges of this type have been proposed and are under construction, which calls for extensive research work in this field. Nowadays, very long span cable-stayed bridges are being built and the ambition is to further increase the span length using shallower and slender girders. In order to achieve this, accurate procedures need to be developed which can lead to a thorough understanding and a realistic prediction of the bridge’s structural response under different load conditions.In the present study, an attempt has been made to analyze the seismic response of cable stayed bridges with single pylon and two equal side spans. This study has made an effort to analyze the effect of both static and dynamic loadings on cable-stayed bridges and corresponding response of the bridge with variations in span length, pylon height and pylon shape. Comparison of static analysis results have been made for different configuration of bridges - their mode shapes, time period, frequency, pylon top deflection, maximum deck deflection; and longitudinal reaction, lateral reaction and longitudinal moment at pylon bottom. Time history analysis results have been investigated for different configuration of bridges under the effects of three earthquakes response spectrum (Bhuj, El Centro and Uttarkashi) - axial forces in stay cables, deck deflections and stress diagrams at maximum peak ground acceleration of the above mentioned earthquakes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Anas M. Fares

In this study, the influence of soil condition under the isolated and fixed bases is studied by using ETABS 16 software for the high-rise regular building. A regular building with 10 floors is modeled and the results are obtained for story displacements, story shear forces and spectral acceleration according to Uniform Building Code 97 (UBC-97) code. The time history analysis has been performed by using 1999 Izmit earthquake record. 3 types of soil which had different stiffnesses are considered in this study. The results show that the value of base shear increases when the soil stiffness decreases. It also noticed that the spectral acceleration is larger in soft soil condition than that of other soil conditions; and this confirms that the structural response spectrum is associated with the soil condition. In addition, when using base isolated building the drift of lower floors will be larger than that of using base isolated, but in the upper floors the drifts of fixed base building will be larger than that of the isolated base building. Finally, time history method in the seismic design will produce base shear less than that from equivalent static method, so calibration factor for design purpose shall be used.


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