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1. Introduction to Earthquake Engineering
1.1 What is Earthquake
1.2 Damages due to Earthquake
1.3 Discussion
2. Introduction to Dynamics of Structures
2.1 Introduction
2.2 SDOF
2.3 MDOF
3. Earthquake Engineering - Analysis and Design Aspects
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Earthquake Waves and Record time history
3.3 Design Aspects
3.4 Development of Analytical Model
3.5 Analysis of Structures
3.6 Selection of Number of modes
3.7 Missing Mass Correction
3.8 Combination of Modal Response
3.9 Ductile Detailing Aspects
3.10 Steps to Carry out Earthquake Analysis of Structures
4. References
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Ground Behavior
The effects of violent shaking on the ground are temporarily to increase lateral and
vertical forces, to disturb the inter-granular stability of non-cohesive solid and to impose
strains directly on surface material locally if the fault plane reaches the surface. Shear
movements in the ground may be at the surface or entirely below it. If the earthquake
fault reaches the surface, permanent movements of considerable magnitude occur; this
can amount to several meters in large earthquakes.
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Structural Damages
Due to violet motion of the earthquake there is appreciable displacement of the top earth,
which led to damages to the structural elements.
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Figure 1.8 Damages to Petrol Pump Station, Wong, Bhuj, India, 2001.
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1.3 Discussion
The damages caused due to earthquake are varied. Although this damages cannot be
avoid, but it can be reduce or lessen by taking measures in the design and detailing of the
structures. The earthquake engineering deals with the earthquake resistant design of
structures, passive or active devices to reduce the effect on the structures and retrofitting
measures for the structures.
Conventional Buildings
Isolated Buildings
Figure 1.9 Use of Passive Energy Devices to reduce Damage to Buildings [3]
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To understand the behavior of structure subjected to earthquake, one needs to know the
basics of Structural Dynamics. In the next section 2, the basics about the structural
dynamics are prescribed. Whereas in the Section 3, a thrust a made to give knowledge
about the earthquake or Earthquake analysis and design of structures.
In order to understand the structural behavior, there is enormous literature available on
these topics. Some of the literatures for reference are:
1.3.1 Books
(1) Anil K. Chopra (2002), Dynamic of structures, prentice hall of India private
limited, New Delhi.
(2) Mario Paz (1987), Structural dynamics, CBS publishers & distributors, Delhi.
(3) Ray W.Clough & Joseph penzien (1975), Dynamic of structure, McGraw-hill
Kogakusha Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
1.3.2 Websites
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
www. nisee.berkeley.edu
www.ejse.org
www.icivilengineer.com/Earthquake_Engineering/Structural_Dynamics/
www.mceer.buffalo.edu
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Almost any type of structural system may be subjected to one form or another of dynamic
loading during its lifetime. From an analytical standpoint, it is convenient to divide
prescribed or deterministic loadings into two basic categories, periodic and nonperiodic.
Some typical forms of prescribed loadings and examples of situations in which such
loadings might be developed are shown in Fig. 2.1. As indicated in this Figure, a periodic
loading exhibits the same time variation successively for a large number of cycles. The
simplest periodic loading has the sinusoidal variation shown in Fig. 11a, which is termed
simple harmonic; loadings of this type are characteristic of unbalanced mass effects in
rotating machinery. Other forms of periodic loading, e.g., those caused by hydrodynamic
pressures generated by a propeller at the stern of a ship or by inertial effects in
reciprocating machinery, frequently are more complex. However, by means of a Fourier
analysis any periodic loading can be represented as the sum of a series of simple
harmonic components; thus, in principle, the analysis of response to any periodic loading
follows the same general procedure[1].
Nonperiodic loadings may be either short duration impulsive loadings or long duration
general forms of loads. A blast or explosion is a typical source of impulsive load; for such
short duration loads, special simplified forms of analysis may be employed. On the other
hand, a general, long duration loading such as might result from an earthquake can be
treated only by completely general dynamic analysis procedures [1].
A structural dynamic problem differs from its static loading counterpart in two important
respects. The first difference to be noted, by definition, is the time varying nature of the
dynamic problem. Because both loading and response vary with time, it is evident that a
dynamic problem does not have a single solution, as a static problem does; instead the
analyst must establish a succession of solutions corresponding to all times of interest in
the response history. Thus a dynamic analysis is clearly more complex and timeconsuming than a static analysis [6].
2.2 Single Degree of Freedom system (SDOF)
The essential physical properties of any linearly elastic structural or mechanical system
subjected to an external source of excitation or dynamic loading are its mass, elastic
properties (flexibility or stiffness), and energy loss mechanism or damping.
In the simplest model of a SDOF system, each of these properties is assumed to be
concentrated in a single physical element. A sketch of such a system is shown in Fig. 2.2.
The entire mass m of this system is included in the rigid block which is constrained by
rollers so that it can move only in simple translation; thus, the single displacement
coordinate v (t) completely defines its position. The elastic resistance to displacement is
provided by the weightless spring of stiffness k, while the energy loss mechanism is
represented by the damper c. The external dynamic loading producing the response of
this system is the time varying force p (t).
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Figure 2.3 SDOF system under Forcing Function and Free Body Diagram.
(Excerpt Taken from Reference Book)
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Using the Sub-iteration Technique, the Eigen Values (Frequency) and Eigen Vectors
(Mode Shapes) can be evaluated.
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The forced vibration analysis for the structure subjected to dynamic loads can be
performed using any of the procedures:
1.
2.
In the next section, we will talk about detail procedure to carry out the Time history
Analysis and Response Spectrum Analysis, subjected to earthquake excitation.
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3.1 Introduction
In 1935, Charles F. Richter of the California Institute of Technology developed the
Richter magnitude scale to measure earthquake strength. The magnitude, M, of an
earthquake is determined from the logarithm to base ten of the amplitude recorded by
seismometer.
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CV
CC
cr
where is the damping ratio of material
Ccr is critical damping
The critical damping of a material is a value for which the oscillatory motion gets seized.
Damping ratios for structural materials are generally less than 20% and for
different materials damping values are different. In order to obtain modal response, in
case the structure contains materials with different damping. The percentage of critical
damping in each mode has to be evaluated using the weighted strain energy principle.
Evaluation of Modal Damping
J K i J
i 1
where
= damping ratio of the element (subsystem)
K = stiffness matrix of the ith element (subsystem)
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..
..
.
X C X K X M u b u g
where,
C = damping matrix
K = stiffness matrix
X = column vector of relative displacements
ub = influence vector
..
u g = ground acceleration
In the modal superposition method the equations of motion can be decoupled using
transformation,
X Y
..
..
2 j j Y j j Y j j U g
= { }T [M] (Ub)
These single dof equations shall be integrated for evaluating the response.
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..
..
.
X C X K X M u b u g
where,
C = damping matrix
K = stiffness matrix
X = column vector of relative displacements
ub = influence vector
..
u g = ground acceleration
In the modal superposition method the equations of motion can be decoupled using
transformation,
X Y
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..
..
2 j j Y j j Y j j U g
= { }T [M] (Ub)
the generalized response of each mode shall be determined from following equation
using response spectrum.
S aj
Y j (max) j
2
j
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K X ij (max) M U b i i
m
i 1
S A max
SRSS method
CQC method
10% method
ABSOLUTE SUM method
R
k 1
2
k
1/ 2
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Rk2
1/ 2
Ri R j
i j
j i
0 .1
i
also1 i j N
Spatial Combination
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Figure 3.11 Ductile detailing of Reinforced Column section and at Beam Main Reinforcement.
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4 References
[1] Masjid B (2001) ,Earthquake Design of Building Structures, , Professional
Publications.
[2] Naeim, Earthquake Design Handbook.
[3] Edmund Booth and David Key (second edition), Earthquake Design Practice for
Buildings, Thomas Telford.
[4] Anil K. Chopra (2002), Dynamic of structures, prentice hall of India private limited,
New Delhi.
[5] Mario Paz (1987), Structural dynamics, CBS publishers & distributors, Delhi.
[6] Ray W.Clough & Joseph penzien (1975), Dynamic of structure, McGraw-hill
Kogakusha Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
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