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Earthquakes and Structures
  Volume 17, Number 1, July 2019 , pages 1-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/eas.2019.17.1.001
 


Effects of pulse-like nature of forward directivity ground motions on the seismic behavior of steel moment frames
Iman Mansouri, Shahrokh Shahbazi, Jong Wan Hu and Salar Arian Moghaddam

 
Abstract
    In the structures with high level of ductility, the earthquake energy dissipation in structural components is an important factor that describes their seismic behavior. Since the connection details play a major role in the ductile behavior of structure, in this paper, the seismic response of 3-, 5- and 8-story steel special moment frames (SMFs) is investigated by considering the effects of panel zone modeling and the influence of forward-directivity near-field ground motions. To provide a reasonable comparison, selected records of both near and far-field are used in the nonlinear time-history analysis of models. The results of the comparison of the median maximum inter-story drift under excitation by near-field (NF) records and the far-field (FF) ground motions show that the inter-story drift demands can be obtained 3.47, 4.86 and 5.92 times in 3-, 5- and 8-story structures, respectively, undergoing near-field earthquakes.
 
Key Words
    special steel moment frame; forward directivity; inter-story drift; panel-zone, near-field
 
Address
Iman Mansouri: Department of Civil Engineering, Birjand University of Technology, Birjand, Iran
Shahrokh Shahbazi: TAAT Investment Group, Tehran, Iran
Jong Wan Hu: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, South Korea; Incheon Disaster Prevention Research Center, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, South Korea
Salar Arian Moghaddam: International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES), Tehran, Iran
 

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