Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Email-allwayzitzme@gmail.com
1. Introduction
In the context of seismic analysis and design of structures, various earthquake data may be
required depending upon the nature of analysis being carried out. The most common way to describe a
ground motion or earthquake data is a time history record. Time history is a record of time vs.
acceleration values at the respective time. The records can also be of velocity, or displacement.
Generally, the directly measured quantity is the acceleration and the other parameters are the derived
quantities.
(2.1.1)
Where m is mass of SDOF, u is the displacement relative to the ground, is the ground acceleration; c,
k are damping and stiffness of SDOF respectively. Eq. 2.1.1 can be written as follows
2
Where
(2.1.2)
To get the response of SDOF system, equation (2.1.2) is integrated w.r.t time for a given
damping, for a given seismic input once natural period of vibration is known.
If the response for different SDOF systems is calculated , maintaining the damping ratio and
varying the natural period of vibration, and represent the maximum value of each response against the
http://sites.google.com/site/kolukulasivasrinivas/
natural period of vibration, we get the Displacement Response Spectrum of the given seismic data for a
particular damping ratio.
(2.2.1)
(2.2.2)
The respective plots are called pseudo-velocity and pseudo-acceleration response spectra.
http://sites.google.com/site/kolukulasivasrinivas/
http://sites.google.com/site/kolukulasivasrinivas/
http://sites.google.com/site/kolukulasivasrinivas/
http://sites.google.com/site/kolukulasivasrinivas/