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Structural Engineering and Mechanics Volume 53, Number 5, March10 2015 , pages 957-979 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2015.53.5.957 |
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Parameters affecting the seismic response of buildings under bi-directional excitation |
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Ioanna-Kleoniki M. Fontara, Konstantinos G. Kostinakis, Grigorios E. Manoukas and Asimina M. Athanatopoulou
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| Abstract | ||
| The present paper investigates the influence of the orientation of the ground-motion reference axes, the seismic incident angle and the seismic intensity level on the inelastic response of asymmetric reinforced concrete buildings. A single storey asymmetric building is analyzed by nonlinear dynamic analyses under twenty bi-directional ground motions. The analyses are performed for many angles of incidence and four seismic intensity levels. Moreover three different pairs of the horizontal accelerograms corresponding to the input seismic motion are considered: a) the recorded accelerograms, b) the corresponding uncorrelated accelerograms, and c) the completely correlated accelerograms. The nonlinear response is evaluated by the overall structural damage index. The results of this study demonstrate that the inelastic seismic response depends on the orientation of the ground-motion reference axes, since the three individual pairs of accelerograms corresponding to the same ground motion (recorded, uncorrelated and completely correlated) can cause different structural damage level for the same incident angle. Furthermore, the use of the recorded accelerograms as seismic input does not always lead to the critical case of study. It is also shown that there is not a particular seismic incident angle or range of angles that leads to the maximum values of damage index regardless of the seismic intensity level or the ground-motion reference axes. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| bi-directional excitation; ground-motion reference axes; seismic incident angle; inelastic response; intensity level; damage index; asymmetric single-story building | ||
| Address | ||
| Ioanna-Kleoniki M. Fontara, Konstantinos G. Kostinakis, Grigorios E. Manoukas and Asimina M. Athanatopoulou: Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece | ||