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Seismic Fragility Analysis of a Multi-Tower Super High-Rise Building Under Near-Fault Ground Motions
Earthquake damage to engineering structures often occur in near-fault areas. Near-fault ground motion is characterized by high-energy velocity pulses, long action period, and strong destructiveness. This paper forces on the seismic analysis of a multi-tower super high-rise building that subjected to near-fault ground motions. The interactions between each tower makes the internal forces and dynamic responses much complex and totally different from single-tower super high-rise buildings. However, currently, multi-tower buildings in China are usually regarded as multiple single-tower buildings, and then separately designed based on the relevant provisions in seismic code for single-tower buildings. The mutual influence between the towers is almost not taken into account. Seismic response history analysis was carried on a three-tower super high-rise building using finite element method. Various near-fault and far-fault ground motions and high-energy velocity pulses were used as inputs. Through calculation of inter-story drift ratio and maximum displacement, the quantitative seismic fragility analysis was conducted for the main tower and sub-tower structures. The results show that the responses from near-fault ground motions to the structure are much greater than those from far-fault ground motions. The damage probabilities of various damage levels for near-fault ground motions are 12.5% higher than far-fault ground motions averagely. A further analysis reveals that the velocity pulses are the main factor causing structural damage in near-fault ground motions.
Seismic Fragility Analysis of a Multi-Tower Super High-Rise Building Under Near-Fault Ground Motions
Earthquake damage to engineering structures often occur in near-fault areas. Near-fault ground motion is characterized by high-energy velocity pulses, long action period, and strong destructiveness. This paper forces on the seismic analysis of a multi-tower super high-rise building that subjected to near-fault ground motions. The interactions between each tower makes the internal forces and dynamic responses much complex and totally different from single-tower super high-rise buildings. However, currently, multi-tower buildings in China are usually regarded as multiple single-tower buildings, and then separately designed based on the relevant provisions in seismic code for single-tower buildings. The mutual influence between the towers is almost not taken into account. Seismic response history analysis was carried on a three-tower super high-rise building using finite element method. Various near-fault and far-fault ground motions and high-energy velocity pulses were used as inputs. Through calculation of inter-story drift ratio and maximum displacement, the quantitative seismic fragility analysis was conducted for the main tower and sub-tower structures. The results show that the responses from near-fault ground motions to the structure are much greater than those from far-fault ground motions. The damage probabilities of various damage levels for near-fault ground motions are 12.5% higher than far-fault ground motions averagely. A further analysis reveals that the velocity pulses are the main factor causing structural damage in near-fault ground motions.
Seismic Fragility Analysis of a Multi-Tower Super High-Rise Building Under Near-Fault Ground Motions
Ma, Xingliang (author) / Liu, Zhen (author) / Xiao, Xingyuan (author)
Journal of Earthquake Engineering ; 28 ; 4301-4322
2024-11-17
22 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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