A Practical Response Spectrum Method in Considering the Input Angle of Seismic Excitation

2013 ◽  
Vol 438-439 ◽  
pp. 1506-1509
Author(s):  
Shi Mei Liu ◽  
Ling Tao Xia
Keyword(s):  
Random Vibration ◽  
Response Spectrum ◽  
Power Spectra ◽  
Structural Response ◽  
Seismic Excitation ◽  
Response Spectrum Method ◽  
Displacement Response ◽  
Spectrum Method

To the asymmetric-plan structures, the torsion model is obvious, and the influence of input angle of excitation on structural response is sensitive, so a practical response spectrum method for analyzing the behaviors of this kind of structure is studied. Based on the achievements about the multi-components accelerations power spectra matrix, a rational formula, considering the input angle of excitation, is deduced by using stationary random vibration principle. A practical formula is proposed by introducing displacement response spectrum as equally as to considering the non-stationarity of excitation.

Rational Design Spectra for Structural Reliability Assessment Using the Response Spectrum Method

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 2007-2026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Loth ◽  
Jack W. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Rational Design ◽  
Structural Reliability ◽  
Response Spectrum ◽  
Reliability Assessment ◽  
Structural Response ◽  
Response Spectrum Method ◽  
Design Point ◽  
Design Spectrum ◽  
Design Spectra ◽  
Spectrum Method

Current design spectra, which approximate uniform hazard or risk spectra, are known to have shortcomings, but no alternative has been proven superior for the purposes of design checks. In this work, we use response spectrum method analysis to show that the “design point” associated with a structural reliability assessment is a rational choice for a design spectrum. When the response parameter of interest is sensitive to excitation at a particular period, the design point corresponds to a conditional mean spectrum (CMS) conditioned on that period. In the case where there are multiple structural response parameters of interest, or it is unknown what excitation periods are important to the structural response, the CMS can be used by considering multiple conditioning periods and taking the maximum structural response from any of the spectra for design checks. This observation is used to justify the CMS as a target response spectrum for design checks.

Seismic response analysis of steel–concrete hybrid wind turbine tower

2021 ◽  
pp. 107754632110075
Author(s):  
Junling Chen ◽  
Jinwei Li ◽  
Dawei Wang ◽  
Youquan Feng
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Response Spectrum ◽  
Ground Motions ◽  
Time History ◽  
Seismic Action ◽  
Response Spectrum Method ◽  
Spectrum Method ◽  
Wind Turbine Tower ◽  
Ground Types ◽  
Nonlinear Time History

The steel–concrete hybrid wind turbine tower is characterized by the concrete tubular segment at the lower part and the traditional steel tubular segment at the upper part. Because of the great change of mass and stiffness along the height of the tower at the connection of steel segment and concrete segment, its dynamic responses under seismic ground motions are significantly different from those of the traditional steel tubular wind turbine tower. Two detailed finite element models of a full steel tubular tower and a steel–concrete hybrid tower for 2.0 MW wind turbine built in the same wind farm are, respectively, developed by using the finite element software ABAQUS. The response spectrum method is applied to analyze the seismic action effects of these two towers under three different ground types. Three groups of ground motions corresponding to three ground types are used to analyze the dynamic response of the steel–concrete hybrid tower by the nonlinear time history method. The numerical results show that the seismic action effect by the response spectrum method is lower than those by the nonlinear time history method. And then it can be concluded that the response spectrum method is not suitable for calculating the seismic action effects of the steel–concrete hybrid tower directly and the time history analyses should be a necessary supplement for its seismic design. The first three modes have obvious contributions on the dynamic response of the steel–concrete hybrid tower.

scholarly journals A Multi-Objective Ground Motion Selection Approach Matching the Acceleration and Displacement Response Spectra

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yabin Chen ◽  
Longjun Xu ◽  
Xingji Zhu ◽  
Hao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Ground Motion ◽  
Response Spectrum ◽  
Structural Response ◽  
Response Spectra ◽  
Computationally Efficient ◽  
Ground Motion Selection ◽  
Displacement Response ◽  
Rc Frames ◽  
Selection Approach ◽  
Displacement Response Spectra

For seismic resilience-based design (RBD), a selection of recorded time histories for dynamic structural analysis is usually required. In order to make individual structures and communities regain their target functions as promptly as possible, uncertainty of the structural response estimates is in great need of reduction. The ground motion (GM) selection based on a single target response spectrum, such as acceleration or displacement response spectrum, would bias structural response estimates leading significant uncertainty, even though response spectrum variance is taken into account. In addition, resilience of an individual structure is not governed by its own performance, but depends severely on the performance of other systems in the same community. Thus, evaluation of resilience of a community using records matching target spectrum at whole periods would be reasonable because the fundamental periods of systems in the community may be varied. This paper presents a GM selection approach based on a probabilistic framework to find an optimal set of records to match multiple target spectra, including acceleration and displacement response spectra. Two major steps are included in that framework. Generation of multiple sub-spectra from target displacement response spectrum for selecting sets of GMs was proposed as the first step. Likewise, the process as genetic algorithm (GA), evolvement of individuals previously generated, is the second step, rather than using crossover and mutation techniques. A novel technique improving the match between acceleration response spectra of samples and targets is proposed as the second evolvement step. It is proved computationally efficient for the proposed algorithm by comparing with two developed GM selection algorithms. Finally, the proposed algorithm is applied to select GM records according to seismic codes for analysis of four archetype reinforced concrete (RC) frames aiming to evaluate the influence of GM selection considering two design response spectra on structural responses. The implications of design response spectra especially the displacement response spectrum and GM selection algorithm are summarized.

Comparative Evaluation of Mode Combination Methods in Seismic Analysis Using Response Spectrum Method for Tank Structure Using FEA - Seismic FEA

2011 ◽  
Vol 110-116 ◽  
pp. 5240-5248
Author(s):  
Sujay Shelke ◽  
H.V. Vankudre ◽  
Vinay Patil
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Analysis ◽  
Response Spectrum ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Relative Displacement ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Response Spectrum Method ◽  
Spectrum Method ◽  
Combination Methods ◽  
Eigen Values ◽  
Modes Of Vibration

Typical seismic analysis using response spectrum method involves several steps from the initial step of extracting the modes. At the initial stage Eigen values are extracted corresponding to the modes of vibration. These give us Eigen vectors which are a series of relative displacement shapes; however these do not correspond to real displacements or stresses. Participation factors asses these Eigen vectors and grades them according to contribution they will have to the overall solution. Based on the spectral seismic acceleration, participation factor is used to calculate the mode coefficient, which is more of a scaling factor to give physical meaning to the values. Once the modes are extracted, the key issue is of combining these modes to obtain the seismic response. The modes cannot be added algebraically in reality as all the modes do not occur at the same time. Hence we employ methods which can add the modes in a more realistic manner. The objective of this paper is to do a comparative study of various mode combination methods with a focus on tank structures and study the effect of various geometrical parameters on the combination methods

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