Building Seismic Vulnerability Study for China High Rises

Abstract:

High-rise buildings, as a result of rapid urbanization in China, become one of popular structure kind. However, there have been few seismic vulnerability studies on high-rise buildings, and few fragility curves have been developed for the buildings. Based on the published data of more than 50 high rises and super high rises, the structural information such as building heights, mode periods, locations and sites, the maximum design story drift ratios, are collected and analyzed. The vulnerability analysis for high rises uses response spectrum displacement as seismic ground motion input, since the structures have comparatively long natural period. Using statistics and regression analysis, the relationship between the maximum story drift ratio and response spectrum displacement is established. Based on height groups and earthquake design codes, the fragility curves of different performance levels can be developed. These curves can provide good loss estimation of high rise structural damage under earthquake ground motion.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 353-356)
• Pages: 2301-2304
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.353-356.2301
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Fan Wu, Ming Wang, Xin Yuan Yang
• Keywords: Building Seismic Vulnerability, Fragility Curves, Response Spectrum

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