Evaluation of Nonlinear Seismic Response of RC Shear Wall in Nuclear Reactor Containment Building

This paper presents a modification of the modal-based ground motion selection (MGMS) method for improving the reliability of the nonlinear response time history analysis (NLRHA) of reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall structures. The original MGMS procedure quantified the impact of frequency content combinations in the time domain (FCCTD) of input ground motions (IGMs) on the seismic response of building structures using the level of interaction of the first three modes induced by IGMs. However, previous research found that the first two modes have far larger modal mass coefficients than those of higher modes and dominate the vibration of the RC shear wall structures with a symmetric plan. Therefore, the MGMS procedure should be modified by employing the interaction of the first two modes induced by IGMs to properly account for the effect of the FCCTD of IGMs on the seismic response of structures. In the MGMS procedure for RC shear wall structures, seven IGMs that caused the most significant interactions of the first two modes were selected from a suite of twenty seed IGMs, which were chosen with a conventional spectra-matching-based IGMs selection procedure for the NLRHA of the structure. A comprehensive case study involving three RC shear walls with different heights was conducted to investigate the capability of the MGMS in selecting suitable IGMs for the NLRHA of RC shear wall structures. Sets of seed IGMs were selected, adopting conditional mean spectra and design spectra as the target spectra. It was found that the seismic demands computed using MGMS selected IGMs can ensure a more reliable and reasonable computation of seismic demands compared with conventional spectra-matching-based IGMs selection methods.

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Nonlinear seismic response of a reinforced concrete nuclear reactor containment vessel

Nuclear Engineering and Design ◽

10.1016/0029-5493(71)90095-1 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 341-344 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard L. Citerley ◽

Robert E. Ball

Keyword(s):

Reinforced Concrete ◽

Seismic Response ◽

Nuclear Reactor ◽

Nonlinear Seismic Response ◽

Containment Vessel

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Experimental Modal Analysis of a Full-Scale Seven-Story Shear Wall Based on Nonlinear Seismic Response

Topics on the Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 1 - Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series ◽

10.1007/978-1-4614-2413-0_37 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 369-373

Author(s):

Eliyar Asgarieh ◽

Babak Moaveni

Keyword(s):

Modal Analysis ◽

Seismic Response ◽

Shear Wall ◽

Full Scale ◽

Experimental Modal Analysis ◽

Nonlinear Seismic Response

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Research on the Physical Inter-story Drift Ratio and the Damage Evaluation of RC Shear Wall Structures

KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering ◽

10.1007/s12205-021-1486-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Feng Wang ◽

Qing-Xuan Shi ◽

Peng Wang

Keyword(s):

Shear Wall ◽

Damage Evaluation ◽

Drift Ratio ◽

Wall Structures ◽

Story Drift ◽

Rc Shear Wall

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Study the seismic response of reinforced concrete high-rise building with dual framed-shear wall system considering the effect of soil structure interaction

Materials Today Proceedings ◽

10.1016/j.matpr.2020.12.111 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Wesam Al Agha ◽

Waleed Alozzo Almorad ◽

Nambiappan Umamaheswari ◽

Amjad Alhelwani

Keyword(s):

Reinforced Concrete ◽

Seismic Response ◽

Soil Structure ◽

Shear Wall ◽

Soil Structure Interaction ◽

Structure Interaction ◽

High Rise ◽

High Rise Building ◽

Wall System

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Finite Element Simulation of RC Shear Wall Components

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.170-173.3594 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 170-173 ◽

pp. 3594-3597

Author(s):

Hai Tao Wan ◽

Peng Li

Keyword(s):

Finite Element ◽

Finite Element Simulation ◽

Shear Wall ◽

Lateral Force ◽

Skeleton Curve ◽

Structure Damage ◽

Wall Structures ◽

Element Simulation ◽

Rc Shear Wall ◽

Wall Components

Reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall component is a very important lateral force-resisting member which is widely used in China. Its seismic behavior has a great impact on the seismic performance of the overall structure. Damage of some RC shear wall structures under the earthquake is caused by the damage of shear wall components, So shear wall components are an essential seismic members. However, the test datum are not enough to study the performance of RC shear wall components, Therefore, Finite element simulation of RC shear wall components is performed by software ABAQUS in the paper. Through comparing with the finite element simulation and the test of load - displacement skeleton curve, failure mode and steel bar strain, the result shows that the finite element simulation can more accurately simulate the situation of the test, verifying the finite element simulation is the most important research tool besides test.

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