Probabilistic Approach for Cost Optimization of Structural Materials Using Plastic Hinge Mechanism

Abstract:

In the seismic design, it is important to consider higher risks of damage under seismic design forces than under other general loads, such as live load, dead load, or wind load. Although the full strength of the structure can be developed to resist various types of earthquake forces with respect to increased safety factor, this design concept may be not appropriate when we consider the economic benefit since the design under the seismic force is normally 15 to 25 % more expensive than the design of elastic response. As a one of the seismic design approaches, plastic hinge mechanism has drawn an interest to ensure the economic design performance under the earthquake. In this paper, forecasted seismic motion was simulated using a Monte Carlo simulation to determine the seismic design load applied to the structure system. Then for each seismic load, the economical set of plastic hinge mechanisms was optimized using linear programming.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 538-541)
• Pages: 3244-3248
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.538-541.3244
• Online since: June 2012
• Authors: Kwang Ik Son*, Byung Seung Kong, Won Suk Jang, Hee Joong Kim, Hack Soo Lee
• Keywords: Cost Optimization, Monte-Carlo Simulation, Plastic Hinge, Structural Materials

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