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Multimodal Pushover Analysis for R.C. Bridges
In recent years, Italian technical-scientific community has increased its interest on the evaluation of the seismic response of existing structures. Among this wide range of structures, reinforced concrete bridges stand out for their strategic relevance and technical complexity. Most of these structures were built between 60ies and 70ies, according to design procedures which ignored nowadays knowledge in seismic engineering. Thus, the necessity to evaluate the real strength capacity of these structures with modern analysis techniques has become essential, leading to the determination of their safety level in case of an earthquake. In particular, for the assessment of several bridges of a motorway network, a multi-modal pushover analysis approach has been considered. This analysis technique allows considering the nonlinear behaviour and the complex dynamic response of such structures without exceeding in high computational costs. Some basic rules were defined (constitutive laws of materials, finite element type, plastic hinge models, etc.) for the modelling of bridges, in order to guarantee homogeneous comparable results among different structures of a network. At the end, some of the results are compared to see the variation of the verification level with respect to both the number of modes considered and the analysis’s accuracy in terms of number of loading steps.
Multimodal Pushover Analysis for R.C. Bridges
In recent years, Italian technical-scientific community has increased its interest on the evaluation of the seismic response of existing structures. Among this wide range of structures, reinforced concrete bridges stand out for their strategic relevance and technical complexity. Most of these structures were built between 60ies and 70ies, according to design procedures which ignored nowadays knowledge in seismic engineering. Thus, the necessity to evaluate the real strength capacity of these structures with modern analysis techniques has become essential, leading to the determination of their safety level in case of an earthquake. In particular, for the assessment of several bridges of a motorway network, a multi-modal pushover analysis approach has been considered. This analysis technique allows considering the nonlinear behaviour and the complex dynamic response of such structures without exceeding in high computational costs. Some basic rules were defined (constitutive laws of materials, finite element type, plastic hinge models, etc.) for the modelling of bridges, in order to guarantee homogeneous comparable results among different structures of a network. At the end, some of the results are compared to see the variation of the verification level with respect to both the number of modes considered and the analysis’s accuracy in terms of number of loading steps.
Multimodal Pushover Analysis for R.C. Bridges
Applied Mechanics and Materials ; 725-726 ; 888-895
2015-01-29
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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