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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/eas.2017.12.1.001

The impact of successive earthquakes on the seismic damage of multistorey 3D R/C buildings  

Kostinakis, Konstantinos (Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Aristotle University)
Morfidis, Konstantinos (Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization (EPPO-ITSAK))
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Earthquakes and Structures / v.12, no.1, 2017 , pp. 1-12 More about this Journal
Abstract
Historical earthquakes have shown that successive seismic events may occur in regions of high seismicity. Such a sequence of earthquakes has the potential to increase the damage level of the structures, since any rehabilitation between the successive ground motions is practically impossible due to lack of time. Few studies about this issue can be found in literature, most of which focused their attention on the seismic response of SDOF systems or planar frame structures. The aim of the present study is to examine the impact of seismic sequences on the damage level of 3D multistorey R/C buildings with various structural systems. For the purposes of the above investigation a comprehensive assessment is conducted using three double-symmetric and three asymmetric in plan medium-rise R/C buildings, which are designed on the basis of the current seismic codes. The buildings are analyzed by nonlinear time response analysis using 80 bidirectional seismic sequences. In order to account for the variable orientation of the seismic motion, the two horizontal accelerograms of each earthquake record are applied along horizontal orthogonal axes forming 12 different angles with the structural axes. The assessment of the results revealed that successive ground motions can lead to significant increase of the structural damage compared to the damage caused by the corresponding single seismic events. Furthermore, the incident angle can radically alter the successive earthquake phenomenon depending on the special characteristics of the structure, the number of the sequential earthquakes, as well as the distance of the record from the fault.
Keywords
repeated earthquakes; seismic sequences; reinforced concrete buildings; seismic incident angle; seismic damage; bidirectional excitation;
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