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Structural Engineering and Mechanics
  Volume 87, Number 2, July25 2023 , pages 173-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2023.87.2.173
 


Seismic equivalent linear response of a structure by considering soil-structure interaction: Analytical and numerical analysis
Maroua Lagaguine and Badreddine Sbartai

 
Abstract
    For a given structural geometry, the stiffness and damping parameters of the soil and the dynamic response of the structure may change in the face of an equivalent linear soil behavior caused by a strong earthquake. Therefore, the influence of equivalent linear soil behavior on the impedance functions form and the seismic response of the soil-structure system has been investigated. Through the substructure method, the seismic response of the selected structure was obtained by an analytical formulation based on the dynamic equilibrium of the soil-structure system modeled by an analog model with three degrees of freedom. Also, the dynamic response of the soil-structure system for a nonlinear soil behavior and for the two types of impedance function forms was also analyzed by 2D finite element modeling using ABAQUS software. The numerical results were compared with those of the analytical solution. After the investigation, the effect of soil nonlinearity clearly showed the critical role of soil stiffness loss under strong shaking, which is more complex than the linear elastic soil behavior, where the energy dissipation depends on the seismic motion amplitude and its frequency, the impedance function types, the shear modulus reduction and the damping increase. Excellent agreement between finite element analysis and analytical results has been obtained due to the reasonable representation of the model.
 
Key Words
    equivalent linear soil model; impedance function; seismic response; soil-structure interaction (SSI); viscoelastic model
 
Address
Maroua Lagaguine: LGC Laboratory, University Badji Mokhtar of Annaba, BP 12, 23100 Annaba, Algeria
Badreddine Sbartai: LMGE Laboratory, University Badji Mokhtar of Annaba, BP 12, 23100 Annaba, Algeria
 

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