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한반도 주요 지체구조구별 지진학적 특성 (Seismic Characteristics of Tectonic Provinces of the Korean Peninsula)

  • 이기화;김정기
    • 지구물리
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    • 제3권2호
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 2000
  • 한반도의 지진활동은 시공적으로 매우 불규칙한 판내부 지진활동의 전형적 특성을 보여준다. 한반도는 지질학적으로 구조 및 특성이 다른 여러 개의 지체구조구로 나누어지며 본 연구에서는 각 지체구조구의 지진활동의 특성의 차이를 규명하기 위하여 한반도의 역사 및 계기 지진자료를 이용하여 각 지체구조구의 지진활동변수를 추정하였다. 조선시대 이전의 불완전한 지진자료와 그 이후의 완전한 지진자료에 대한 통계적 분석은 지체구조구들 사이에 지진활동의 특성에 현저한 차이가 나지 않음을 보였다. 한반도 전체로서 진도-빈도의 b값은 대략 0.6 이며, 최대 지진은 MMI X 정도이다. 본 연구결과는 한반도의 확률론적 지진재해도 분석과 내진 공학에서 설계지진의 평가에 유용하게 이용될 수 있다.

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Evaluation of seismic design provisions for acceleration-sensitive non-structural components

  • Surana, Mitesh
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • 제16권5호
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    • pp.611-623
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    • 2019
  • A set of mid-rise bare and uniformly infilled reinforced-concrete frame buildings are analyzed for two different seismic intensities of ground-motions (i.e., 'Design Basis Earthquake' and 'Maximum Considered Earthquake') to study their floor response. The crucial parameters affecting seismic design force for acceleration-sensitive non-structural components are studied and compared with the guidelines of the European and the United States standards, and also with the recently developed NIST provisions. It is observed that the provisions of both the European and the United States standards do not account for the effects of the period of vibration of the supporting structure and seismic intensity of ground-motions and thereby provides conservative estimates of the in-structure amplification. In case of bare frames, the herein derived component amplification factors for both the design basis earthquake and the maximum considered earthquake exceeds with their recommended values in the European and the United States standards for non-structural components having periods in vicinity of the higher modes of vibration, whereas, in case of infilled frames, component amplification factors exceeds with their recommended value in the European standard for non-structural components having periods in vicinity of the fundamental mode of vibration, and only for the design basis earthquake. As a consequence of these observations, as well as capping on the design force (in case of United states standard and NIST provisions), in case of the design basis earthquake, the combined amplification factor is underestimated for non-structural components having periods in vicinity of the higher modes of vibration of bare frames, and also for non-structural components having periods in vicinity of the fundamental mode of vibration of infilled frames. At the maximum considered earthquake demand, excepting non-structural components having periods in vicinity of the higher modes of vibration of bare frames, all provisions generally provide conservative estimates of the design floor accelerations.

Improving Information Service for Earthquake Using Rapid ShakeMap

  • Hwang, Jinsang;Ha, Ok-Kyoon
    • 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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    • 제26권5호
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    • pp.95-101
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    • 2021
  • 본 연구는 지진의 영향을 등치선의 형태로 표현할 수 있는 Shake을 활용하여 현행 지진재난 정보제공 서비스를 개선하는 방법에 관한 것이다. 미국 지질조사국이 제공하고 있는 ShakeMap 소프트웨어를 사용하여 자동화된 신속 ShakeMap 생성 시스템을 구현하였으며 이를 바탕으로 지진발생 후 사용자의 위치를 기준으로 지진의 위험도를 진도나 지반최대가속도의 형태로 파악할 수 있는 지진재난 정보서비스 개선모델을 제시하였다. 개선된 모델의 구현 가능성과 효과를 검증하기 위하여 경북 포항지역을 대상으로 지진재난 정보서비스앱을 개발하여 시범적으로 운영한 결과 신속 ShakeMap을 활용한 정보제공을 통해 보다 상세한 지진위험도 정보를 제공함으로써 사용자의 안전행동을 보다 효과적으로 유도할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

Lifetime seismic performance assessment of high-rise steel-concrete composite frame with buckling-restrained braces under wind-induced fatigue

  • Liu, Yang;Li, Hong-Nan;Li, Chao;Dong, Tian-Ze
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제77권2호
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    • pp.197-215
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    • 2021
  • Under a severe environment of multiple hazards such as earthquakes and winds, the life-cycle performance of engineering structures may inevitably be deteriorated due to the fatigue effect caused by long-term exposure to wind loads, which would further increase the structural vulnerability to earthquakes. This paper presents a framework for evaluating the lifetime structural seismic performance under the effect of wind-induced fatigue considering different sources of uncertainties. The seismic behavior of a high-rise steel-concrete composite frame with buckling-restrained braces (FBRB) during its service life is systematically investigated using the proposed approach. Recorded field data for the wind hazard of Fuzhou, Fujian Province of China from Jan. 1, 1980 to Mar. 31, 2019 is collected, based on which the distribution of wind velocity is constructed by the Gumbel model after comparisons. The OpenSees platform is employed to establish the numerical model of the FBRB and conduct subsequent numerical computations. Allowed for the uncertainties caused by the wind generation and structural modeling, the final annual fatigue damage takes the average of 50 groups of simulations. The lifetime structural performance assessments, including static pushover analyses, nonlinear dynamic time history analyses and fragility analyses, are conducted on the time-dependent finite element (FE) models which are modified in lines with the material deterioration models. The results indicate that the structural performance tends to degrade over time under the effect of fatigue, while the influencing degree of fatigue varies with the duration time of fatigue process and seismic intensity. The impact of wind-induced fatigue on structural responses and fragilities are explicitly quantified and discussed in details.

Development of seismic collapse capacity spectra for structures with deteriorating properties

  • Shu, Zhan;Li, Shuang;Gao, Mengmeng;Yuan, Zhenwei
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • 제12권3호
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    • pp.297-307
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    • 2017
  • Evaluation on the sidesway seismic collapse capacity of the widely used low- and medium-height structures is meaningful. These structures with such type of collapse are recognized that behave as inelastic deteriorating single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems. To incorporate the deteriorating effects, the hysteretic loop of the nonlinear SDOF structural model is represented by a tri-linear force-displacement relationship. The concept of collapse capacity spectra are adopted, where the incremental dynamic analysis is performed to check the collapse point and a normalized ground motion intensity measure corresponding to the collapse point is used to define the collapse capacity. With a large amount of earthquake ground motions, a systematic parameter study, i.e., the influences of various ground motion parameters (site condition, magnitude, distance to rupture, and near-fault effect) as well as various structural parameters (damping, ductility, degrading stiffness, pinching behavior, accumulated damage, unloading stiffness, and P-delta effect) on the structural collapse capacity has been performed. The analytical formulas for the collapse capacity spectra considering above influences have been presented so as to quickly predict the structural collapse capacities.

Bayesian demand model based seismic vulnerability assessment of a concrete girder bridge

  • Bayat, M.;Kia, M.;Soltangharaei, V.;Ahmadi, H.R.;Ziehl, P.
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • 제9권4호
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    • pp.337-343
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    • 2020
  • In the present study, by employing fragility analysis, the seismic vulnerability of a concrete girder bridge, one of the most common existing structural bridge systems, has been performed. To this end, drift demand model as a fundamental ingredient of any probabilistic decision-making analyses is initially developed in terms of the two most common intensity measures, i.e., PGA and Sa (T1). Developing a probabilistic demand model requires a reliable database that is established in this paper by performing incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) under a set of 20 ground motion records. Next, by employing Bayesian statistical inference drift demand models are developed based on pre-collapse data obtained from IDA. Then, the accuracy and reasonability of the developed models are investigated by plotting diagnosis graphs. This graphical analysis demonstrates probabilistic demand model developed in terms of PGA is more reliable. Afterward, fragility curves according to PGA based-demand model are developed.

2016년 경주지진에 의한 중층 RC 건물의 내진 성능 평가 (Seismic Performance Assessment of a Mid-Rise RC Building subjected to 2016 Gyeongju Earthquake)

  • 이도형;전종수
    • 한국지진공학회논문집
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    • 제20권7_spc호
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    • pp.473-483
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, seismic performance assessment has been examined for a mid-rise RC building subjected to 2016 Gyeongju earthquake occurred in Korea. For the purpose of the paper, 2D external and internal frames in each direction of the building have been employed in the present comparative analyses. Nonlinear static pushover analyses have been conducted to estimate frame capacities. Nonlinear dynamic time-history analyses have also been carried out to examine demands for the frames subjected to ground motions recorded at stations in near of Gyeongju and a previous earthquake ground motion. Analytical predictions demonstrate that maximum demands are significantly affected by characteristics of both spectral acceleration response and spectrum intensity over a wide range of periods. Further damage potential of the frames has been evaluated in terms of fragility analyses using the same ground motions. Fragility results reveal that the ground motion characteristics of the Gyeongju earthquake have little influence on the seismic demand and fragility of frames.

Influence of axial load and loading path on the performance of R.C. bridge piers

  • Kehila, Fouad;Bechtoula, Hakim;Benaouar, Djillali
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • 제15권4호
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    • pp.563-588
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    • 2015
  • Piers are the most vulnerable part of a bridge structure during an earthquake event. During Kobe earthquake in 1995, several bridge piers of the Hanshin Expressway collapsed for more than 600m of the bridge length. In this paper, the most important results of an experimental and analytical investigation of ten reinforced concrete bridge piers specimens with the same cross section subjected to constant axial (or variable) load and reversed (or one direction) cycling loading are presented. The objective was to investigate the main parameters influencing the seismic performance of reinforced concrete bridge piers. It was found that loading history and axial load intensity had a great influence on the performance of piers, especially concerning strength and stiffness degradation as well as the energy dissipation. Controlling these parameters is one of the keys for an ideal seismic performance for a given structure during an eventual seismic event. Numerical models for the tested specimens were developed and analyzed using SeismoStruct software. The analytical results show reasonable agreement with the experimental ones. The analysis not only correctly predicted the stiffness, load, and deformation at the peak, but also captured the post-peak softening as well. The analytical results showed that, in all cases, the ratio, experimental peak strength to the analytical one, was greater than 0.95.

Seismic performance of South Nias traditional timber houses: A priority ranking based condition assessment

  • Sodangi, Mahmoud;Kazmi, Zaheer Abbas
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • 제18권6호
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    • pp.731-742
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    • 2020
  • Due to incessant earthquakes, many historic South Nias traditional timber houses have been damaged while some still stand today. As Nias is part of an extremely active tectonic region and the buildings are getting older by day, it is essential that these unique houses are well maintained and functioning well. A post-earthquake condition assessment was conducted on 2 selected buildings; 'Building A' survived the seismic shakings while 'Building B' got severely damaged. The overall condition assessment of "Building A' was found out to be poor and the main structural members were not performing as intended. In 'Building B', the columns were not well anchored to the ground, no tie beams to tie the columns together, and eventually, the timber columns moved in various directions during the earthquake. The frequent earthquakes along with deterioration due to lack of proper maintenance program are responsible for the non-survival of the buildings. Thus, a process guideline for managing the maintenance of these buildings was proposed. This is necessary because managing the maintenance works could help to extend the life of the buildings and seek to avoid the need for potentially expensive and disruptive intervention works, which may damage the cultural significance of the buildings.

An investigation on the maximum earthquake input energy for elastic SDOF systems

  • Merter, Onur
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • 제16권4호
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    • pp.487-499
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    • 2019
  • Energy-based seismic design of structures has gradually become prominent in today's structural engineering investigations because of being more rational and reliable when it is compared to traditional force-based and displacement-based methods. Energy-based approaches have widely taken place in many previous studies and investigations and undoubtedly, they are going to play more important role in future seismic design codes, too. This paper aims to compute the maximum earthquake energy input to elastic single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems for selected real ground motion records. A data set containing 100 real ground motion records which have the same site soil profiles has been selected from Pacific Earthquake Research (PEER) database. Response time history (RTH) analyses have been conducted for elastic SDOF systems having a constant damping ratio and natural periods of 0.1 s to 3.0 s. Totally 3000 RTH analyses have been performed and the maximum mass normalized earthquake input energy values for all records have been computed. Previous researchers' approaches have been compared to the results of RTH analyses and an approach which considers the pseudo-spectral velocity with Arias Intensity has been proposed. Graphs of the maximum earthquake input energy versus the maximum pseudo-spectral velocity have been obtained. The results show that there is a good agreement between the maximum input energy demands of RTH analysis and the other approaches and the maximum earthquake input energy is a relatively stable response parameter to be used for further seismic design and evaluations.