Damage-involved response of two colliding buildings under non-uniform earthquake loading

Robert Jankowski

Damage-involved response of two colliding buildings under non-uniform earthquake loading

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Pounding between insufficiently separated buildings, which may result in considerable damage or may even lead to the total collapse of colliding structures, has been repeatedly observed during earthquakes. Earthquake-induced collisions of buildings has been intensively studied applying various structural models. It was assumed in the analyses, however, that the seismic excitation is identical for all structural supports; whereas, in the reality, the ground motion differs from place to place due to spatial seismic effects connected with propagation of the seismic wave. The aim of the present paper is to conduct a detailed non-linear damage-involved analysis of pounding between two structures under non-uniform earthquake loading. A case of pounding between the Olive View Hospital main building and one of its stairway towers, observed during the San Fernando earthquake of 1971, has been considered in the study. In the numerical FEM analysis, non-linear material properties have been simulated using stiffness degradation (due to damage under cyclic loading) model of concrete and elastoplastic damage model of reinforcing steel. A method of conditional stochastic modelling has been used to generate the input ground motion records. The results of the study indicate that the incorporation of the non-uniform ground motion excitation may lead to substantial change of pounding-involved response of the structures. The difference between the uniform and non-uniform responses has been found to be relatively large considering the fact that the variation in the simulated input ground motion records was rather small. This shows the importance of incorporation in the damage-involved numerical analysis the effects connected with propagation of the seismic wave.

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Robert Jankowski prof. dr hab. inż.

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Category:: Conference activity
Type:: materiały konferencyjne indeksowane w Web of Science
Published in:: Key Engineering Materials no. 577-578, pages 197 - 200,
ISSN: 1662-9795
Title of issue:: 12th International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics (FDM 2013) strony 197 - 200
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2014
Bibliographic description:: Jankowski R..: Damage-involved response of two colliding buildings under non-uniform earthquake loading, W: 12th International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics (FDM 2013), 2014, ,.
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