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Wind and Structures Volume 27, Number 3, September 2018 , pages 199-211 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/was.2018.27.3.199 |
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Efficient wind fragility analysis of RC high rise building through metamodelling |
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Apurva Bhandari, Gaurav Datta and Soumya Bhattacharjya
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| Abstract | ||
| This paper deals with wind fragility and risk analysis of high rise buildings subjected to stochastic wind load. Conventionally, such problems are dealt in full Monte Carlo Simulation framework, which requires extensive computational time. Thus, to make the procedure computationally efficient, application of metamodelling technique in fragility analysis is explored in the present study. Since, accuracy by the conventional Least Squares Method (LSM) based metamodelling is often challenged, an efficient Moving Least Squares Method based adaptive metamodelling technique is proposed for wind fragility analysis. In doing so, artificial time history of wind load is generated by three wind field models: i.e., a simple one based on alongwind component of wind speed; a more detailed one considering coherence and wind directionality effect, and a third one considering nonstationary effect of mean wind. The results show that the proposed approach is more accurate than the conventional LSM based metamodelling approach when compared to full simulation approach as reference. At the same time, the proposed approach drastically reduces computational time in comparison to the full simulation approach. The results by the three wind field models are compared. The importance of non-linear structural analysis in fragility evaluation has been also demonstrated. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| wind fragility; metamodelling; Moving Least Squares Method; risk; Monte Carlo Simulation; RC building | ||
| Address | ||
| Apurva Bhandari, Gaurav Datta and Soumya Bhattacharjya: Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) Shibpur, Howrah.-711103, West Bengal, India | ||