Seismic Performance Evaluation of Buildings in Taiwan

2014 ◽  
Vol 638-640 ◽  
pp. 1854-1857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeng Hsiang Lin
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Seismic Performance Evaluation ◽  
Code Calibration ◽  
Reinforced Masonry ◽  
Earthquake Resistant Design ◽  
Earthquake Resistant ◽  
Cast Concrete ◽  
Probability Information

Integrating the available research results from fragility analysis of building structures and seismic hazard analysis, this study explored some probability information for current earthquake resistant design for general buildings and examined structural performance of buildings under the action of earthquake motions. The results of this study show that performance objectives suggested by FEMA are not realized for the buildings of light steel, pre-cast concrete, reinforced masonry, and un-reinforced masonry, designed according to the Taiwan seismic design standards. The results may provide some valuable information for future code calibration in Taiwan.

scholarly journals Time independent seismic hazard analysis of Greece deduced from Bayesian statistics

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 129-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Tsapanos ◽  
G. A. Papadopoulos ◽  
O. Ch. Galanis
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Hazard ◽  
Bayesian Statistics ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Earthquake Occurrence ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Seismogenic Sources ◽  
Earthquake Resistant Design ◽  
Seismogenic Source ◽  
Earthquake Resistant ◽  
Of Greece

Abstract. A Bayesian statistics approach is applied in the seismogenic sources of Greece and the surrounding area in order to assess seismic hazard, assuming that the earthquake occurrence follows the Poisson process. The Bayesian approach applied supplies the probability that a certain cut-off magnitude of Ms = 6.0 will be exceeded in time intervals of 10, 20 and 75 years. We also produced graphs which present the different seismic hazard in the seismogenic sources examined in terms of varying probability which is useful for engineering and civil protection purposes, allowing the designation of priority sources for earthquake-resistant design. It is shown that within the above time intervals the seismogenic source (4) called Igoumenitsa (in NW Greece and west Albania) has the highest probability to experience an earthquake with magnitude M > 6.0. High probabilities are found also for Ochrida (source 22), Samos (source 53) and Chios (source 56).

An Integrated Model to Design Earthquake Resistant Structures

2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 890-893
Author(s):  
Mehdi Nourbakhsh ◽  
Samaneh Zolfagharian ◽  
Mohamad Zin Rosli ◽  
Mohammad Ali Nekooie ◽  
R. Taherkhani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Earthquake Resistant Design ◽  
Earthquake Resistant ◽  
Earthquake Resistant Structures ◽  
Design Earthquake ◽  
Selection Of

Selection of the material and design of earthquake resistance structures are an important issue today. Many people die every year due to inappropriate design and selection of the materials. There are several software to be used for structural design of buildings, however they just design the structure based on some limited standards. There is a need to develop a computer-based earthquake resistant design model to integrate the current market’s software with different design standards of different countries. The objective of this study is to propose a model to integrate the local structural design standards/codes with available market’s programs. To achieve this objective, Microsoft Excel was used as the core of the model to be integrated with one of the market’s program. Then, the model was developed in three phases. To test the model, the Iranian design standard (Code 2800) was used to design a 7-story apartment. The results show that the model can be fully integrated with those market’s programs which support Microsoft Excel. The result of Phase 1 of the model is useful to select the optimum selection of the material while Phase 2 and 3 contribute to design of the earthquake resistant structure.

scholarly journals Recent development in seismic design of reinforced concrete buildings in Japan

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-340
Author(s):  
H. Aoyama
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Frame ◽  
Concrete Frame ◽  
Construction Methods ◽  
Building Research Institute ◽  
Earthquake Resistant Design ◽  
Earthquake Resistant

Japan experienced a quick development of highrise reinforced concrete frame-type apartment building construction, about 30 stories high, in the last decade. Outline of this development is first introduced in terms of planning of buildings, materials, construction methods, earthquake resistant design and dynamic response analysis. This quick development was made possible by, among others, the available high strength concrete and steel. In an attempt to further promote development of new and advanced reinforced concrete building structures, a five-year national project was started in 1988 in Japan, promoted by the Building Research Institute, Ministry of Construction. Outline of this project is introduced in the second part of this paper. It aims at the development and use of concrete up to 120 MPa, and steel up to 1200 MPa.

Lessons Learned from Recent Earthquakes and Research and Implications for Earthquake-Resistant Design of Building Structures in the United States

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 825-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitelmo V. Bertero
Keyword(s):  
Lateral Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Structural Quality ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Response Modification Factor ◽  
Earthquake Resistant Design ◽  
Earthquake Resistant ◽  
Modification Factor ◽  
Recent Earthquakes

Following an overview of the special problems inherent in the design and construction of earthquake-resistant buildings in regions of high seismic risk, the techniques that will be required to solve these problems in the U.S. are discussed. Some lessons learned from recent earthquakes, particularly those in Chile and Mexico in 1985, are discussed as are some results of integrated analytical and experimental research at the University of California, Berkeley. The implications of the ground motions recorded during the 1985 Mexican and Chilean earthquakes, the performance of buildings during the Mexican earthquake, and the research results previously discussed are then assessed with respect to seismic-resistant design regulations presently in force (UBC) as well as those formulated by ATC 3-06 and the Tentative Lateral Force Requirements recently developed by the Seismology Committee of SEAOC. The rationale for and reliability of the values suggested by the ATC for the “Response Modification Factor R” and by the SEAOC Seismology Committee for the “Structural Quality Factor Rw” are reviewed in detail. In the conclusion to the paper, two solutions for improving the earthquake-resistant design of building structures are proposed: an ideal (rational) method to be implemented in the future, and a compromise solution that can be implemented immediately.

scholarly journals FUNDAMENTAL STUDY ON EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT DESIGN OF FILL-TYPE DAMS

1983 ◽  
Vol 1983 (339) ◽  
pp. 127-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshio OHNE ◽  
Hidehiro TATEBE ◽  
Kunitomo NARITA ◽  
Tetsuo OKUMURA
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Study ◽  
Earthquake Resistant Design ◽  
Earthquake Resistant

A NEURAL NETWORK-WAVELET MODEL FOR GENERATING ARTIFICIAL ACCELEROGRAMS

2004 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 217-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
GENE F. SIRCA ◽  
HOJJAT ADELI
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Wavelet Network ◽  
Design Spectrum ◽  
Earthquake Resistant Design ◽  
Earthquake Resistant ◽  
Structural Configurations ◽  
Earthquake Accelerograms ◽  
Artificial Accelerograms

In earthquake-resistant design of structures, for certain structural configurations and conditions, it is necessary to use accelerograms for dynamic analysis. Accelerograms are also needed to simulate the effects of earthquakes on a building structure in the laboratory. A new method of generating artificial earthquake accelerograms is presented through adroit integration of neural networks and wavelets. A counterpropagation (CPN) neural network model is developed for generating artificial accelerograms from any given design spectrum such as the International Building Code (IBC) design spectrum. Using the IBC design spectrum as network input means an accelerogram may be generated for any geographic location regardless of whether earthquake records exist for that particular location or not. In order to improve the efficiency of the model, the CPN network is modified with the addition of the wavelet transform as a data compression tool to create a new CPN-wavelet network. The proposed CPN-wavelet model is trained using 20 sets of accelerograms and tested with additional five sets of accelerograms available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Given the limited set of training data, the result is quite remarkable.

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