scholarly journals Seismic Performance of Existing Building Retrofitted with VSL-Gensui Damper

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Pamuda Pudjisuryadi ◽  
Benjamin Lumantarna ◽  
Tjhai Ferlinda Hermawan ◽  
Teddy Tirta Gunawan

Buildings designed using older code should be checked against the higher demand required by newer code. In this study, performance of Building T of Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia, which was designed with older Indonesian Seismic Code (PPTGIUG 1983) is investigated. The effectiveness of VSL-Gensui Damper application is also investigated as an effort to enhance the performance of the building. Nonlinear time history analysis was conducted to analyze the building. Spectrum consistent ground acceleration generated from El Centro 18 May 1940 North-South component in accordance to current seismic code was used for analysis. The result shows that the existing building cannot resist the demand specified by current code (SNI 1726:2012) as some frame element failures are detected. The performance is greatly enhanced after installation of VSL-Gensui Dampers. Roof story drift and displacement decreased as much as 9% and 14%, respectively as compared to existing building, and structural element failures were no longer observed.

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Pamuda Pudjisuryadi ◽  
Benjamin Lumantarna ◽  
Ryan Setiawan ◽  
Christian Handoko

The recent seismic code SNI 1726-2012 is significantly different compared to the older code SNI 1726-2002. The seismic hazard map was significantly changed and the level of maximum considered earthquake was significantly increased. Therefore, buildings designed according to outdated code may not resist the higher demand required by newer code. In this study, seismic performance of Hotel X in Kupang, Indonesia which was designed based on SNI-1726-2002 is investigated. The structure was analyzed using Nonlinear Time History Analysis. The seismic load used was a spectrum consistent ground acceleration generated from El-Centro 18 May 1940 North-South component in accordance to SNI 1726-2012. The results show that Hotel X can resist maximum considered earthquake required by SNI 1726-2012. The maximum drift ratio is 0.81% which is lower than the limit set by FEMA 356-2000 (2%). Plastic hinge damage level is also lower than the allowance in ACMC 2001.


2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 782-785
Author(s):  
Bin He ◽  
Jin Lai Pang ◽  
Cheng Qing Liu

For the lack of research in the longitudinal frame of prefabricated structure for its weak lateral stiffness, pushover analysis is conducted to evaluate the seismic performance of a fabricated concrete frame. Based on case study, the strengthening strategies with viscous dampers are analyzed. In view of the undesirable drift distribution and failure mode in the existing building, it is believed that arrangement of dampers should be designed to attain a uniform drift distribution. Based on the nonlinear time history analysis method, the strategy of damper allocation in vertical direction of the structure is investigated .Results indicate that a proper design might be attained based on the property of existing system, leading to a uniform drift distribution and better seismic performance.


Author(s):  
Feng-chun Cai ◽  
Xian-hui Ye ◽  
Qian Huang ◽  
Wenzheng Zhang

High confidence of low probability of failure (HCLPF) values of equipment, representing the seismic capacities of the equipment, are the fundamental ingredient in seismic probability safety assessment (SPSA) and seismic margin analyses (SMA). In this paper, two methods for calculating the HCLPF values of equipment were investigated, fragility analysis, and conservative deterministic failure margin (CDFM). These methods are linear methods. Based on these methods, HCLPF value of equipment can be computed conveniently by scaling the results of the existing seismic analysis. For a nonlinear systems, the HCLPF values based on these linear scaling methods are unrealistic. For a complicated nonlinear equipment or structure, a detail nonlinear model was used to derive the seismic capacity. The results by this method are realistic, but cost calculation time. In this paper, a nonlinear model of reactor coolant system coupled reactor building was built. This model includes the steam generator and considers the nonlinear factors of steam generator such as gap in the supports, plasticity of hot leg and cold leg. Forced motion was applied to the base of reactor building. And seismic response of the steam generator was calculated iteratively by scaling the ground motion level step by step. Based on these calculations, a curve of load on the supports VS peak ground acceleration (PGA) can be obtained. Then based on these curves and allowable load of supports of steam generator, which derived from stress analysis on support of steam generator, seismic capacity of the supports of steam generator was determined. Then the HCLPF Value of the supports of steam generator was obtained by this nonlinear time history analysis and was compared with the results based on the CDFM. The two results were different. Therefore, the HCLPF seismic capacity of equipment with nonlinearity, such as gap nonlinearity, should be calculated by nonlinear time history method.


The objective of this research is to analyze the regular and vertical irregular buildings for understanding the response of vertically irregular buildings by using advanced software like ETABS. The analysis is carried out to understand the behaviour of the buildings by performing Non-Linear Dynamic analysis (Nonlinear Time-History Analysis) in software. The response of buildings is analyzed for three different irregularities, they are i) mass irregularity ii) stiffness irregularity iii) setback irregularity. The response of the vertically irregular buildings with regular building is done by considering the Base shear, Displacement and Story Drift of the buildings. The buildings which are irregular in plan will undergo to torsion effects easily because their centre of mass does not coincide with the centre of gravity, since the torsion will be developed in the building. When comes to the buildings which are irregular in elevation and located in seismic zones, the understanding of behaviour of such vertically irregular buildings will be difficult. It is a challenging task to the structural engineers to study the behaviour of vertically irregular buildings. This paper will provide the response of vertical irregular buildings so the engineers can design the buildings accordingly.


2013 ◽  
Vol 405-408 ◽  
pp. 1674-1677
Author(s):  
Bo Yu ◽  
Di Liu ◽  
Lu Feng Yang

Peak displacement is one of the most important parameters for the performance based seismic design of bridge structure, while the peak displacement is often significantly impacted by the P-Δ effect. In this study, the influence of the P-Δ effect on the statistics of peak displacement of bridge structure was quantificationally investigated based on a series of nonlinear time-history analysis. The bridge structure was idealized as the single degree of freedom (SDOF) system and the hysteretic behaviour was represented by the improved Bouc-Wen model. The statistic analysis was implemented based on the inelastic dynamic responses of the SDOF system under 69 selected earthquake records. The results show that the P-Δ effect has significant impact on the mean and dispersion of peak displacement of bridge structures, especially if the normalized yield strength and the natural vibration period are small.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 10745
Author(s):  
Sajib Sarker ◽  
Dookie Kim ◽  
Md Samdani Azad ◽  
Chana Sinsabvarodom ◽  
Seongoh Guk

This research identifies the significant optimal intensity measures (IM) for seismic performance assessments of the fixed offshore jacket platforms. A four-legged jacket platform for the oil and gas operation is deployed to investigate the seismic performance. The jacket platform is applied with nonlinearly modeled using finite element (FE) software OpenSees. A total of 80 ground motions and 21 different IMs are incorporated for numerical analyses. Nonlinear time-history analyses are performed to obtain the jacket structure’s engineering demand parameters (EDP): peak acceleration and displacement at the top of the structure. Four important statistical parameters: practicality, efficiency, proficiency, and coefficient of determination, are then calculated to find the significant IMs for seismic performance of the jacket structure. The results show that acceleration-related IMs: effective design acceleration (EDA), A95 parameter, and peak ground acceleration (PGA) are optimal IMs, and the acceleration-related IMs have good agreements with the acceleration-related EDP.


2010 ◽  
Vol 156-157 ◽  
pp. 467-472
Author(s):  
Peng Tao Yu ◽  
Jing Jiang Sun

Under the excitation of large earthquake, structures enter into high nonlinear stage. Currently, Opensees, Perform-3d and Canny are used as the most popular nonlinear analysis procedures. The fiber model will be introduced firstly and the nonlinear analysis models in Canny are explained in detail. Then Canny2007 is used to conduct nonlinear time history analysis on a heavily damaged frame structure with interlayer in Dujiangyan during Wenchuan Earthquake. Analysis shows that the maximum inter-story drift appears between the interlayer and its upper layer, and the heavy damage agrees well with the results of damage investigation. By comparing the damage extent of frame structures with or without interlayer, it reveals that the seismic performance of RC frame structures without interlayer is obviously better than that of ones with interlayer.


2021 ◽  
pp. 875529302110478
Author(s):  
Payal Gwalani ◽  
Yogendra Singh ◽  
Humberto Varum

The existing practice to estimate seismic performance of a regular building is to carry out nonlinear time history analysis using two-dimensional models subjected to unidirectional excitations, even though the multiple components of ground motion can affect the seismic response, significantly. During seismic shaking, columns are invariably subjected to bending in two orthogonal vertical planes, which leads to a complex interaction of axial force with the biaxial bending moments. This article compares the seismic performance of regular and symmetric RC moment frame buildings for unidirectional and bidirectional ground motions. The buildings are designed and detailed according to the Indian codes, which are at par with the other modern seismic codes. A fiber-hinge model, duly calibrated with the biaxial experimental results, is utilized to simulate the inelastic behavior of columns under bidirectional bending. A comparison of the estimated seismic collapse capacity is presented, illustrating the importance of considering the bidirectional effects. The results from fragility analysis indicate that the failure probabilities of buildings under the bidirectional excitation are significantly higher as compared to those obtained under the unidirectional excitation.


2011 ◽  
Vol 90-93 ◽  
pp. 1644-1648
Author(s):  
Dong Qiang Xu ◽  
Mei Mei He

The article considers the two horizontal components of ground motion and torsional component, to do nonlinear time history analysis both on regular and irregular shaped column frame structure models. The results show that torsional component of ground motion haves some impact on torsion reaction of structures, stiffness of irregular shaped column frame structure is uneven, and angle of columns are greater than that of the regular structure; torsion haves some impact on the torque of structure, the torque increases of corner columns is maximum, so corner columns are weak links in shaped column structure, considered fully during the seismic design.


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