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Steel and Composite Structures Volume 20, Number 4, March20 2016 , pages 777-799 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2016.20.4.777 |
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Seismic response estimation of steel plate shear walls using nonlinear static methods |
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Moon Moon Dhar and Anjan K. Bhowmick
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| Abstract | ||
| One of the major components for performance based seismic design is accurate estimation of critical seismic demand parameters. While nonlinear seismic analysis is the most appropriate analysis method for estimation of seismic demand parameters, this method is very time consuming and complex. Single mode pushover analysis method, N2 method and multi-mode pushover analysis method, modal pushover analysis (MPA) are two nonlinear static methods that have recently been used for seismic performance evaluation of few lateral load-resisting systems. This paper further investigates the applicability of N2 and MPA methods for estimating the seismic demands of ductile unstiffened steel plate shear walls (SPSWs). Three different unstiffened SPSWs (4-, 8-, and 15-storey) designed according to capacity design approach were analysed under artificial and real ground motions for Vancouver. A comparison of seismic response quantities such as, height-wise distribution of floor displacements, storey drifts estimated using N2 and MPA methods with more accurate nonlinear seismic analysis indicates that both N2 and MPA procedures can reasonably estimates the peak top displacements for low-rise SPSW buildings. In addition, MPA procedure provides better predictions of inter-storey drifts for taller SPSW. The MPA procedure has been extended to provide better estimate of base shear of SPSW. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| nonlinear seismic analysis; N2 method; modal pushover analysis; finite element analysis | ||
| Address | ||
| Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. | ||