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Steel and Composite Structures
  Volume 13, Number 6, December 2012 , pages 561-570
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2012.13.6.561
 


Efficient and automated method of collapse assessment
Yongsheng Qi, Qiang Gu and Dong Li

 
Abstract
    Seismic collapse analysis requires efficient and automated method to perform thousands of time history analyses. The paper introduced the advantages of speed and convergence property of explicit method, provided a few techniques to accelerate speed of calculation and developed an automated procedure for collapse assessment, which combines the strong capacity of commercial explicit finite element software and the flexible, intelligent specialties of control program written in FORTRAN language aiming at collapse analysis, so that tedious and heavy work of collapse analysis based on FEMAP695 can be easily implemented and resource of calculation can be made the best use of. All the key commands of control program are provided to help analyzers and engineers to cope with collapse assessment conveniently.
 
Key Words
    seismic collapse; earthquake wave; explicit method; time history analysis; IDA.
 
Address
Yongsheng Qi and Dong Li : College of Civil Engineering and Traffic, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Qiang Gu : Departmentof Civil Engineering, Suzhou College of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China
 

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