scholarly journals Nonlinear Behavior of Single Piles in Jacket Type Offshore Platforms Using Incremental Dynamic Analysis

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 1793-1803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assareh
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Nonlinear Behavior ◽  
Incremental Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Offshore Platforms ◽  
Single Piles

Nonlinear Behavior of Single Piles in Jacket Type Offshore Platforms Using Incremental Dynamic Analysis

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behrouz Asgarian ◽  
Mohammad Amin Assareh ◽  
Pejman Alanjari
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Site Response ◽  
Free Field ◽  
Nonlinear Behavior ◽  
Incremental Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Offshore Platforms ◽  
Limit States ◽  
Intensity Measures ◽  
Oil Exploitation ◽  
Single Piles

Offshore platforms are some of those structures which are built to withstand environmental and accidental loads during oil exploitation operation. One of the most usual types of these platforms is the Jacket Type Offshore Platform (JTOP) which can be divided into three important parts, which are Deck, Jacket, and piles. In order to increase the safety, particular attention should be paid to earthquake excitations which are directly applied to the piles of these structures. Nonlinearity in piles and buckling of the struts are important issues which have to be considered by the designers of offshore platforms. Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) is a powerful tool to assess the capacity of a structure upon seismic loads. In this paper incremental dynamic analysis has been implemented on single piles considering soil-pile interactions and free field site response. The use of nonlinear materials and lateral load resisting elements in the incremental dynamic analysis done in this paper has made it possible to get promising insights for incorporation of appropriate limit states and applications of performance based engineering. Special Engineering Demand Parameters (EDP) and Intensity Measures (IM) have been introduced for the single pile dynamic analysis in jacket type offshore platforms.

Incremental Dynamic Analysis Considering Pile-Soil-Structure Interaction for the Jacket Type Offshore Platforms

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behrouz Asgarian ◽  
Alireza Fiouz ◽  
Ali Shakeri Talarposhti
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Nonlinear Response ◽  
Limit State ◽  
Nonlinear Behavior ◽  
Incremental Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Layered Soil ◽  
Winkler Foundation ◽  
Offshore Platforms ◽  
Structure Interaction ◽  
Soil Deposits

Nonlinear response of piles is the most important source of potentially nonlinear behavior of offshore platforms due to earthquake excitations. It is often necessary to perform dynamic analysis of offshore platforms that accounts for soil nonlinearity, discontinuity condition at pile soil interfaces, energy dissipation through soil radiation damping and structural nonlinear behaviors of the piles. Incremental dynamic analysis is an analysis method that has recently emerged as a promising tool for thoroughly evaluating the seismic performance of structures. It involves subjecting a structural model to a suite of ground motion records, each scaled to several intensities and recording the responses at each level to form IDA curves of response versus intensity. In this paper, jacket and soil-pile system is modeled and the effects of Soil-Pile-Structure Interaction (SPSI) are considered, and the Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) is used to investigate nonlinear behavior of offshore platforms. An attempt is made to introduce a practical BNWF (Beam on Nonlinear Winkler Foundation) model for estimating the lateral response of flexible piles embedded in layered soil deposits subjected to seismic loading. This model was incorporated into a Finite Element program (OpenSees). All the analyses are performed in two directions and the results are compared with each others. A computer program for Nonlinear Earthquake site Response Analyses of layered soil deposits (NERA) is used for analysis nonlinear response of soil layers. Limit state of the jacket is calculated from incremental dynamic analysis of the jacket using fiber elements for the nonlinear modeling of the system.

Seismic Performance of Jacket Type Offshore Platforms Through Incremental Dynamic Analysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Behrouz Asgarian ◽  
Azadeh Ajamy
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Behavior ◽  
Earthquake Engineering ◽  
Dynamic Instability ◽  
Ground Motions ◽  
Nonlinear Behavior ◽  
Incremental Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Offshore Platforms ◽  
Strong Ground Motions ◽  
Strong Ground

Fixed offshore platforms in seismic active areas may be subjected to strong ground motions, causing the platform to undergo deformation well into the inelastic range. In this paper, incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) of jacket type offshore platforms subjected to earthquake was performed in order to study the linear and nonlinear dynamic behavior of this type of structures. IDA is a parametric analysis method that has been recently presented to estimate structural performance under seismic loads. By using incremental dynamic analysis of jacket type offshore platforms, the assessment of demand and capacity can be carried out. The method was used to predict nonlinear behavior of three newly designed jacket type offshore platforms subjected to strong ground motions. The engineering demand parameters of the platforms in terms of story drifts and intermediate elevation maximum displacement for different records were compared. This method was used for the performance calculations (immediate occupancy, collapse prevention, and global dynamic instability) needed for performance-based earthquake engineering of the above mentioned platforms. Two different behaviors were observed for the third platform in the X and Y directions. Particular attention has to be paid for the seismic design of this kind of platform. The results of jacket type offshore platforms incremental dynamic analysis shows that the method is a valuable tool for studying dynamic behavior in a nonlinear range of deformation. Because of high uncertainty in the nonlinear behavior of this type of structures, it is recommended to use this method for the assessment and requalification of existing jacket type offshore platforms subjected to earthquake.

scholarly journals An approach to quantify the influence of ground motion uncertainty on elastoplastic system acceleration in incremental dynamic analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 1744-1756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Deng ◽  
Shiling Pei ◽  
John W. van de Lindt ◽  
Hongyan Liu ◽  
Chao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Ground Motion ◽  
Earthquake Engineering ◽  
Structural Response ◽  
Incremental Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Maximum Acceleration ◽  
Single Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Single Degree ◽  
Performance Based Earthquake Engineering

Inclusion of ground motion–induced uncertainty in structural response evaluation is an essential component for performance-based earthquake engineering. In current practice, ground motion uncertainty is often represented in performance-based earthquake engineering analysis empirically through the use of one or more ground motion suites. How to quantitatively characterize ground motion–induced structural response uncertainty propagation at different seismic hazard levels has not been thoroughly studied to date. In this study, a procedure to quantify the influence of ground motion uncertainty on elastoplastic single-degree-of-freedom acceleration responses in an incremental dynamic analysis is proposed. By modeling the shape of the incremental dynamic analysis curves, the formula to calculate uncertainty in maximum acceleration responses of linear systems and elastoplastic single-degree-of-freedom systems is constructed. This closed-form calculation provided a quantitative way to establish statistical equivalency for different ground motion suites with regard to acceleration response in these simple systems. This equivalence was validated through a numerical experiment, in which an equivalent ground motion suite for an existing ground motion suite was constructed and shown to yield statistically similar acceleration responses to that of the existing ground motion suite at all intensity levels.

Seismic capacity estimation of a reinforced concrete containment building considering bidirectional cyclic effect

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1106-1120
Author(s):  
Zhi Zheng ◽  
Changhai Zhai ◽  
Xu Bao ◽  
Xiaolan Pan
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Geometric Mean ◽  
Pushover Analysis ◽  
Incremental Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Dissipated Energy ◽  
Seismic Capacity ◽  
Capacity Estimation ◽  
Earthquake Intensity ◽  
Static Pushover Analysis

This study serves to estimate the seismic capacity of the reinforced concrete containment building considering its bidirectional cyclic effect and variations of energy. The implementation of the capacity estimation has been performed by extending two well-known methods: nonlinear static pushover and incremental dynamic analysis. The displacement and dissipated energy demands are obtained from the static pushover analysis considering bidirectional cyclic effect. In total, 18 bidirectional earthquake intensity parameters are developed to perform the incremental dynamic analysis for the reinforced concrete containment building. Results show that the bidirectional static pushover analysis tends to decrease the capacity of the reinforced concrete containment building in comparison with unidirectional static pushover analysis. The 5% damped first-mode geometric mean spectral acceleration strongly correlates with the maximum top displacement of the containment building. The comparison of the incremental dynamic analysis and static pushover curves is employed to determine the seismic capacity of the reinforced concrete containment building. It is concluded that bidirectional static pushover and incremental dynamic analysis studies can be used in performance evaluation and capacity estimation of reinforced concrete containment buildings under bidirectional earthquake excitations.

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