Author(s)
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2009
Submitted on
2009-06-09
Pages
115 pages
Abstract
The aim of this project was to investigate whether structures designed for earthquake loads were robust too. Two steel structures with ten stories and five bays in each direction and with eccentric and concentric braces in the facades respectively have been analyzed using pushover analyzes. The performance for a given ground acceleration have been found using a response spectrum reduced due to the ductile behavior found in the pushover analysis with the method from ATC-40. The robustness has been assessed using a deterministic, probabilistic and risk based approach, where intact and damaged structures were analyzed. In the deterministic assessment the robustness was analyzed in relation to static and seismic horizontal loads, and the influence of ductility and hardening of the material was investigated. In the probabilistic assessment aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties were taken into account in the estimation of the annual probability of failure due to earthquakes, and two different robustness indices were calculated, one based on the probability of failure and one based on the reliability index. Finally a risk based approach was used where both direct and indirect consequences were taken into account. The analyzes have shown that the damaged structures will often have a behavior that is different from that of the original structure, because the yielding mechanisms does not work the way they are designed to when members are missing. Thus the global ductile behavior for damaged structures was found to have great importance for the earthquake related robustness, and the structural configuration was especially important for the performance. This means that structures designed for seismic actions will not necessarily be robust towards seismic loads, as this depends on the structural configuration.
Formålet med dette projekt var at undersøge om konstruktioner dimensioneret for seismiske laster også er robuste. To stålkonstruktioner med hver ti etager og fem sektioner i hver retning og med hhv. excentriske og koncentriske afstivere er blevet analyseret vha. pushoveranalyser. Opførslen ved en givet grundacceleration er beregnet vha. et responsspektrum reduceret afhængigt af duktiliteten fundet med pushoveranalysen med metoden fra ATC-40. Robustheden er blevet vurderet med hhv. en deterministisk, probabilistisk og risikobaseret tilgang, hvor intakte og skadede konstruktioner blev analyseret. Med den deterministiske tilgang blev robustheden analyseret i relation til både statisk og seismisk horisontal last, og påvirkningen af duktilitet og hærdning af materialet blev undersøgt. Med den probabilistiske tilgang blev der taget hensyn til aleatoriske og epistemiske usikkerheder i beregningen af den årlige svigtsandsynlighed pga. jordskælv, og to forskellige robusthedsindekser blev beregnet, ét baseret på svigtsandsynligheden og ét baseret på sikkerhedsindekset. Endelig blev der brugt en risikobaseret tilgang, hvor der blev taget højde for både direkte og indirekte konsekvenser. Analyserne viste, at skadede konstruktioner ofte vil have en opførsel som er forskellig fra den intakte konstruktion, idet de energidissiperende mekanismer ikke virker på den måde de er dimensioneret til, når nogle konstruktionselementer mangler. Derfor havde den globale duktile opførsel af skadede konstruktioner stor indflydelse på den jordskælvsrelaterede robusthed, og den strukturelle konfiguration var særligt vigtig for opførslen. Dette betyder, at konstruktioner der er dimensioneret for seismiske påvirkninger ikke nødvendigvis er robuste ift. seismiske laster, da det afhænger af den strukturelle konfiguration.
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