Papers by Keyword: Ductile Frame

Abstract: With 3-story and 6-story RC buildings of ductile frames, previously designed, non-linear static analysis with increased monotonically lateral loads (Push-over) are made in order to determine its collapse and their responses against the inelastic seismic analysis results with the SCT-EW-85 record are compared. It is designed with the Principal Body and with the Appendix A conditions of the Seismic Technical Norms of the Mexico City Code (RDF-04), satisfying the maximum story distortion limits of the service and collapse conditions; the buildings (offices) are in the III_b compressible seismic zone. The non-lineal responses were determined with nominal resistance and over-resistance effects. For the non-linear static analysis with increased monotonically lateral loads, was important to select the type of lateral forces distribution. The comparison were made with base shear force–roof lateral displacement relations.

Abstract: In ultimate asseismic design of ductile frame structures, plastic deformation and plastic hinge are generally permitted, and some preferred failure modes are often selected. It is an important problem that whether the designed structure collapses according to the designed failure mode, because of the large uncertainties included in external loads and member strength. In this paper, an identification procedure of failure modes for frame structures is developed, and the likely collapse modes of frame structures under uncertain load and member strength are investigated under assumption of normal distributed and non-normal distributed external loads and member strength. It is found that the occurrence order of likely collapse mode is much influenced by the distribution of the random variables. The occurrence order of collapse modes for column over designed structures are investigated and it is found that the increase of column over-design factor can effectively avoid the story collapse mode in probabilistic means.