A Suggestion to the Vertical Earthquake Action Stipulated in Seismic Design Specification

Abstract:

In order to further regulate the vertical earthquake action in seismic design specification, to overcome the unreasonable and inconvenient flaws in certain conditions by using vertical to horizontal spectra ratio function, the feasibility of stipulating vertical design response spectrum with the same way of horizontal one is deal with in this paper. 1513 sets of three component records during 64 earthquakes from NGA-west1 database are selected and grouped by magnitude, distance and site conditions. Average acceleration response spectrum of each group is generalized to get the corresponding mean maximum amplitude and effective peak acceleration EPA. Furthermore, some groups with EPA in an interval are merged into one. Once again, the parameters, such as maximum amplitude and characteristic periods of each final grouping are acquired by the same way. The former is divided by the corresponding horizontal value for site category, to obtain the site coefficient for vertical action. Finally a preliminary suggestion of vertical site coefficient and characteristic period are presented. Comparison of observed data with results from the new suggestion and those from spectral ratio shows that the improvement of this study is obvious.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 580-583)
• Pages: 1750-1754
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.580-583.1750
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Hai Ming Liu, Xia Xin Tao*, Jin Yuan Wang
• Keywords: Characteristic Period, Earthquake Action, Response Spectrum, Site Coefficient, Vertical Action

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