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Earthquakes and Structures Volume 21, Number 5, November 2021 , pages 477-487 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/eas.2021.21.5.477 |
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Influence of strong ground motion duration on reinforced concrete walls |
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Camilo Flores, Ramiro Bazaez and Alvaro Lopez
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| Abstract | ||
| This study focuses on the influence of strong ground motion duration on the response and collapse probability of reinforced concrete walls with a predominant response in flexure. Walls with different height and mass were used to account for a broad spectrum of configurations and fundamental periods. The walls were designed following the specifications of the Chilean design code. Non-linear models of the reinforced concrete walls using a distributed plasticity approach were performed in OpenSees and calibrated with experimental data. Special attention was put on modeling strength and stiffness degradation. The effect of duration was isolated using spectrally equivalent ground motions of long and short duration. In order to assess the behavior of the RC shear walls, incremental dynamic analyses (IDA) were performed, and fragility curves were obtained using cumulative and non-cumulative engineering demand parameters. The spectral acceleration at the fundamental period of the wall was used as the intensity measure (IM) for the IDAs. The results show that the long duration ground motion set decreases the average collapse capacity in walls of medium and long periods compared to the results using the short duration set. Also, it was found that a lower median intensity is required to achieve moderate damage states in the same medium and long period wall models. Finally, strength and stiffness degradation are important modelling parameters and if they are not included, the damage in reinforced concrete walls may be greatly underestimated. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| reinforced concrete walls; incremental dynamic analysis; ground motion duration; fragility curves | ||
| Address | ||
| Camilo Flores:Departamento de Obras Civiles, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Avenida España 1680, Valparaíso, Chile Ramiro Bazaez:Departamento de Obras Civiles, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Avenida España 1680, Valparaíso, Chile Alvaro Lopez:Escuela de Ingeniería Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile | ||