نشریه آنالیز سازه - زلزله
سال بیستم شماره 1 (بهار 1402)

This research has investigated the improvement of the seismic behavior of repairable systems with a cradle mechanism in steel braced buildings with irregular mass in plan. A new method is used to find a suitable method in a building with a regular plan with asymmetric mass distribution, in order to reduce the adverse effects of the structure and to quickly repair the damage caused to the structure after a strong earthquake. In this method, by creating lifting conditions at the base of braced bay columns and by using energy-dissipating devices in this part, energy absorption and consumption are transferred to this part of the structure and prevent damage to other parts. Based on the results, the effect of taking into account the effects of vertical and horizontal earthquakes in different mass irregularities of structures in the seismic performance of low-rise structures was determined. Also, the irregularities in the numerical model of the structure have a significant effect on the IDA curves. As the height of the structure increases in the four failure modes, the mean probability of fragility of the structures occurs at a lower Sa, which means that the vulnerability of the structure increases. Also, with the increase in height, the slope of Sa reduction in four failure modes becomes milder, and the fragility curves for two IO performance levels and CP performance level have been obtained for all 6 structures. Considering the effect of irregularities, they are significantly effective in the structural failure of structures, so that considering the effect of these irregularities in mass distribution can lead to an increase in the probability of structural failure.

Today, the need to design and implement structures with less vulnerability and damage, and easier repair after an earthquake is essential. Traditional seismically resistant lateral systems can cause serious damage to the structural system and the relative displacements remaining in the structure make it very difficult and uneconomical to repair the structure after an earthquake. The utilize of rocking motion in the structure causes the destruction of destructive seismic effects including energy dissipation and improves the seismic behaviour. In this research, in order to investigate the effects of the rocking motion system on the seismic response of short and tall regular steel buildings, a five- and ten-story steel frames with special moment frame lateral bearing system according to the fourth edition of Standard 2800 and the latest editions of the sixth and tenth national building regulations are designed by Perform3D software. Seven earthquake records were selected and then these records were based on ASCE regulations scaled according to the spectrum of the 2800. By using nonlinear time history analysis, the seismic response of the studied building has been investigated in conditions with and without using a rocking motion system. The results of studies such as base shear, Relative displacement of floors, energy dissipation and lateral and vertical accelerations of the roof indicate that the use of rocking motion system in short and tall steel buildings can significantly improve the seismic response of the structure.

The Response Modification Factor (R), which represents the non-elastic performance of structures during severe earthquakes is widely utilized in Codes to determine the seismic demand and to design the structures. The closer the calculated value of R is to the reality, the more accurate the determination of the required resistance of the structure will be. The common analytical method for calculating the Response Modification Factor of ordinary buildings is the non-linear static analysis (Pushover) method. But the use of this method for buildings with base-isolation is doubtful. Incremental nonlinear dynamic analysis (IDA) is one of the new methods with wide application, which can be a suitable alternative for calculating the R of buildings with isolated bases. In the present research, the Response Modification Factor of the steel moment frame structure equipped with base isolation has been calculated and compared for 5-, 8-, and 12-steel story models by using two the incremental nonlinear dynamic analysis (IDA) versus the Pushover analysis (conventional method). The results indicate that the incremental nonlinear dynamic analysis method is more accurate than the pushover analysis, due to the direct use of earthquake records, as well as considering all the dynamic characteristics of the structure, especially the dynamic characteristics of its base isolator. So that, the Response Modification Factor obtained from the IDA analysis compared to the pushover analysis, exhibits an increase of 2.8% in the 5-story, 16.61% in the 8-story, and 8.84% in the 12-story structures. The Response Modification Factors obtained from the above-mentioned analyzes have been compared with the values recommended in the FEMA P695 Code.

Advanced analysis refers to a method in which the strength and stability of the system and structural members are recognized in an integrated manner and there is no need to separately check the capacity of the structural members. This approach is a suitable method for evaluating the real behavior of structures and makes structural designers better understand the main characteristics affecting the actual behavior of structures. Undoubtedly, one of the most widely used structural systems in the construction industry is Concentrically braced frames (CBFs). Mainly, these kinds of frames collapse because of a soft story formation in one or more stories in which excessive brace buckling occurs. Using second order inelastic analysis, this study provides an intuitive understanding of the collapse mechanism of CBFs with 6 and 18 stories subjected to mainshock-aftershock sequences. Such understanding will support development of design methods that preclude low-capacity collapse modes specially under multi-shock excitations. This paper assesses the collapse mechanism as a stage in which the imposed seismic energy fails to dissipate and eventually leads to uncontrolled kinetic energy in structure. The investigation focuses on the role and distribution of the various energy measures and different dissipating mechanisms throughout the structures. Collapse mechanism is identified for various combinations of the utilized 32 mainshock-aftershock pairs that are gradually scaled following the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) process. The distribution of input and dissipated energies along various stories reveals the role of upper stories in damping the imposed energy. Furthermore, the similarity between the height profile of the residual drifts and the story imposed energies highlights the characteristics of the structures in adapting their drift response to a mode with the highest energy absorption

The present study is devoted to the study of the effect of replacing silica-fume (SF) and fly ash (FA) pozzolans on the mechanical properties of recycled concrete (RC) made from recycled masonry coarse aggregates (RMCA).  In manufactured concretes, natural aggregates were replaced by RMCA at different percentages. In order to improve the mechanical properties of these concretes, different percentages of SF and FA were substituted for part of the cement. Slump and specific gravity tests were performed on fresh concrete and compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, and ultrasonic pulse velocity tests were performed on the hardened concrete. The results indicate that replacement of SF and FA increased the slump and decreased the specific weight of the concretes. Also, the results revealed that replacing 5% and 10% SF improved some mechanical properties of recycled concrete containing 50% of RMCA. Replacement of 15% SF, in concrete containing 25% of RMCA resulted in the close mechanical properties of RC compared with CC without pozzolans. Also, the test results demonstrated that replacing different percentages of Fly Ash, could not improve the mechanical properties of RC.

Among the countless methods that have been proposed in the field of structural damage detection, the finite element model updating method has been very popular. However, the accuracy and efficiency of this method decrease drastically when the number of variables in the problem increases, and this is a problem when dealing with large structures with a large number of elements. In this research, a two-step method is proposed, which is capable of reducing the size of the damage detection problem introduced to the updated model by identifying damaged structural members through a damage index based on static strain energy in the first step. Therefore, only a few variables are introduced to the second step, which include a process of updating the finite element model. This second step actually consists of an iterative process of updating the model, which uses a new and damage-sensitive objective function to detect the severity of damage in the elements identified in the previous step. Also, a meta-exploratory optimizer named equilibrium optimizer is utilized to determine the value of the unknown variables of the problem, which are the damage values ​​of the elements introduced by the first step. The proposed method has also been tested on a number of numerical samples to check the effectiveness of the method in the presence of external disturbing factors such as measurement noise. A comparative study has been done to compare the results. According to the results, the proposed method is able to detect the location and severity of damage in different structures, and measurement noises and modal information only from the first few vibration modes do not have much impact on the accuracy of the results. A laboratory study has also been conducted to find out the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method in real structures, and according to the results, the proposed method is well able to detect damage.

Performance-based design is a new approach to topics of the seismic design of structures, which unlike the traditional methods of force-based design, is based on changing the location of the structure. The use of this approach in the process of structure design results in the access to structures with proper performance and an acceptable level of reliability. The main goal of this contribution is to investigate the impact of near- and far- field earthquakes on the collapse capacity and fragility of performance based optimization of RC moment frames using the center of mass meta-heuristic algorithm. Push over analysis has been utilized in the optimization process to control the responses of the studied frames at functional levels and incremental dynamic analysis has been used to evaluate the fragility of the obtained optimal frames. According to the results for the collapse margin ratio and the adjusted collapse margin ratio for the 3-, 6-, and 12-story frames, it is indicated that the collapse margin ratio and therefore the seismic safety under far-field earthquakes are 7%, 16%, and 8% higher than those of the near-field earthquakes, respectively. In other words, the optimized frames in this study against near-field earthquakes have low seismic safety and more fragility than far-field earthquakes.