摘要(英) |
In generally, the
effect of vertical earthquakes on structures is less important than
horizontal earthquakes. Therefore, the influence of vertical earthquake
upon structures can be reasonably ignored excepting for very important
structures. However, the ground accelerations recorded during of
Chi-Chi, Northridge and Kobe earthquake demonstrate that the power of
vertical earthquakes may be strong enough to damage buildings.
Nowadays, the finding has been adopted and thus various Code have taken
considerations of such ground motions in the structural design.
Consequently, the seismic design is more conservative than
before. According to normal practices in constructional design,
original construction design was focus on the effect of two horizontal
earthquakes and ignore that of the vertical earthquakes. This kind of
design concept only made sense to case of deep earthquakes and for
buildings far away from the earthquake-prone area, but may not be
appropriate for structures within earthquake-prone areas where the
vertical ground motion play a very important role in damaging
structures. The subject of this research is to find out the
potential influences of vertical earthquake upon building structures,
particularly for earthquake with high frequency energy. There are three
goals to archive; what is the magnification in acceleration responses at
different floor levels when building is subjected to under the Chi-Chi
earthquake and an artificial high- frequency earthquake, how a high-
frequency vertical earthquake affect the moment responses and what is
the effect of SSI consideration on structural responses. The study
was carried out first by evaluating the SAP2000 software.
Secondly, the effect of of SSI consideration was implemented in the
numerical models to assess the SSI effect on the natural frequency of
structures and the acceleration and moment responses. Finally, using
realistic case to verify the summary drawn from the parametric studies
and to understand what the vertical ground acceleration may effect the
seismic responses of building structures. |