Malaga-Chuquitaype, C., Psaltakis, M. E., Kampas, G. and Wu, J. (2019) Dimensionless fragility analysis of seismic acceleration demands through low-order building models. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 17 (7). pp. 3815-3845. ISSN 1570-761X (Print), 1573-1456 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s10518-019-00615-2)

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Abstract

This paper deals with the estimation of fragility functions for acceleration-sensitive components of buildings subjected to earthquake action. It considers ideally coherent pulses as well as real non-pulselike ground-motion records applied to continuous building models formed by a flexural beam and a shear beam in tandem. The study advances the idea of acceleration-based dimensionless fragility functions and describes the process of their formulation. It demonstrates that the mean period of the Fourier Spectrum, Tm , is associated with the least dispersion in the predicted dimensionless mean demand. Likewise, peak ground acceleration, PGA-, and peak ground velocity, PGV-based length scales are found to be almost equally appropriate for obtaining efficient ‘universal’ descriptions of maximum floor accelerations. Finally, this work also shows that fragility functions formulated in terms of dimensionless Π-terms have a superior performance in comparison with those based on conventional non-dimensionless terms (like peak or spectral acceleration values). This improved efficiency is more evident for buildings dominated by global flexural type lateral deformation over the whole intensity range and for large peak floor acceleration levels in structures with shear-governed behaviour. The suggested dimensionless fragility functions can offer a ‘universal’ description of the fragility of acceleration-sensitive components and constitute an efficient tool for a rapid seismic assessment of building contents in structures behaving at, or close to, yielding which form the biggest share in large (regional) building stock evaluations.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© The Author(s) 2019. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Dimensional analysis, fragility curves, seismic risk
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Engineering (ENG)
Last Modified:	18 May 2020 13:46
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/24262

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