• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.489-508
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• 2013

Design spectra for damping ratios higher than 5% have several important applications in the design of earthquake-resistant structures. These highly damped spectra are usually derived from a 5%-damped reference pseudo-acceleration spectrum by using a damping modification factor. In cases of high damping, the absolute acceleration and the relative velocity spectra instead of the pseudo-acceleration and the pseudo-velocity spectra should be used. This paper elaborates on the recovery of spectral absolute acceleration and spectral relative velocity from their pseudo-spectral counterparts. This is accomplished with the aid of correction factors obtained through extensive parametric studies, which come out to be functions of period and damping ratio.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2014

현재 국내 내진설계기준에서 제시하고 있는 지반분류 방법 및 지반 증폭계수는 기반암이 주로 30m 이내에 위치하는 일반적인 국내 지반특성을 제대로 반영하지 못하고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 사질토 지반에 근입된 비정형 말뚝기초(PHC 500, 중심 간격 3D, 4D, 5D)와 상부 구조물에 대한 동적 원심모형 실험을 실시하여 자유장과 기초판의 응답 스펙트럼 결과를 비교하였다. 단주기 영역인 1초 이내 주기에서는 기초판 및 지표면 자유장의 측정 스펙트럼이 SC 및 SD 지반의 표준설계스펙트럼 가속도보다 크게 나타났다. 1.5초 이상의 장주기 영역에서는 실험에서 측정된 스펙트럼 가속도가 SC 지반의 표준설계응답스펙트럼 가속도보다 작게 나타났고 상부구조물 유무, 지반 근입 심도, 기초 및 자유장 조건에 의한 스펙트럼 가속도 차이가 거의 발생하지 않았다. 따라서, 실제 아파트에 해당하는 1.5초 이상의 장주기에서는 국내 지반조건을 고려하여 측정된 스펙트럼 가속도를 설계에 적용하면 표준설계스펙트럼을 적용할 때 보다 경제적인 설계가 가능한 것으로 나타났다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.199-208
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• 2023

Seismic performance analysis is one of the fundamental steps in the design of new or retrofitting buildings. In the seismic performance analysis, the adapted spectral acceleration curve for a given site mainly governs the seismic behavior of buildings. Since every soil site (class) has a different impact on the spectral accelerations of input motions, different spectral acceleration curves have to be involved for every soil class that the building is located on top of. Modern seismic design codes (e.g., Eurocode 8, EC8, or Turkish Building Earthquake Code, TBEC) provide design response spectra for all the soil classes to be used in the building design or retrofitting. This research aims to evaluate the EC8 and TBEC based design response spectra using the spectra of real earthquake input motions that occurred (and were recorded at only soil classes A, B and C, no recording is available at soil class D) in a specific area in Turkey. It also conducts response spectrum analyses of 5, 10 and 13 floor reinforced concrete building models under EC8, TBEC and actual spectral response curves. The results indicate that the EC8 and especially TBEC given design response spectra cannot be able to represent the mean actual spectral acceleration curves at soil classes A, B and C. This is particularly observed at periods higher than 0.3 s, 0.42 s and 0.55 s for the TBEC design response spectra, 0.54 s, 0.65 s and 0.84 s for the EC8 design response spectra at soil classes A, B and C, respectively. This is also reflected to the shear forces of three building models, as actual spectral acceleration curves lead to the highest shear forces, followed by the shear forces obtained from EC8 and, then, the TBEC design response spectra.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2012

All contemporary seismic Codes have adopted smooth design acceleration response spectra, which have derived by statistical analysis of many elastic response spectra of natural accelerograms. The above smooth design spectra are characterized by two main branches, an horizontal branch that is 2.5 times higher than the peak ground acceleration, and a declining parabolic branch. According to Eurocode EN/1998, the period range of the horizontal, flat branch is extended from 0.1 s, for rock soils, up to 0.8 s for softer ones. However, from many natural recorded accelerograms of important earthquakes, the real spectral amplification factor appears to be much higher than 2.5 and this means that the spectrum leads to an unsafe seismic design of the structures. This point is an issue open to question and it is the object of the present study. In the present paper, the spectral amplification factor of the smooth design acceleration spectra is re-calculated on the grounds of a known "reliability index" for a desired probability of exceedance. As a pilot scheme, the seismic area of Greece is chosen, as it is the most seismically hazardous area in Europe. The accelerograms of the 82 most important earthquakes, which have occurred in Greece during the last 38 years, are used. The soil categories are taken into account according to EN/1998. The results that have been concluded from these data are compared with the results obtained from other strong earthquakes reported in the World literature.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.269-277
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• 2019

In a seismic design, a structural demand by an earthquake load is determined by design response spectra. The ground motion is a three-dimensional movement; therefore, the design response spectra in each direction need to be assigned. However, in most design codes, an identical design response spectrum is used in two horizontal directions. Unlike these design criteria, a realistic seismic input motion should be applied for a seismic evaluation of structures. In this study, the definition of horizontal spectral acceleration representing the two-horizontal spectral acceleration is reviewed. Based on these methodologies, the horizontal responses of observed ground motions are calculated. The data used in the analysis are recorded accelerograms at the stations near the epicenters of recent earthquakes which are the 2007 Odeasan earthquake, 2016 Gyeongju earthquake, and 2017 Pohang earthquake. Geometric mean-based horizontal response spectra and maximum directional response spectrum are evaluated and their differences are compared over the period range. Statistical representation of the relations between geometric mean and maximum directional spectral acceleration for horizontal direction and spectral acceleration for vertical direction are also evaluated. Finally, discussions and suggestions to consider these different two horizontal directional spectral accelerations in the seismic performance evaluation are presented.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.147-152
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• 2015

현재, 국내의 내진설계기준에서 제시하고 있는 지반분류 방법과 지반 증폭계수는 깊은 기반암 조건의 미국 서부 해안지역 지반에 적합하도록 제시되어 있으므로 기반암이 약 30m 미만인 우리나라와는 다른 동적 거동을 나타낸다. 선행연구에 의하면, 말뚝 기초에 대한 원심모형 실험결과와 동적 지진 해석결과는 우리나라에서 사용하고 있는 설계스펙트럼의 가속도 값보다 주기 1.5초 부근에서는 낮게 나타나고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 원심모형 실험결과에서 얻어진 설계스펙트럼 가속도를 사용하여 구조해석을 수행하고 기존의 설계기준과 대비하여 철근 및 콘크리트의 물량 등을 상호 비교하여 아파트 골조공사의 경제성을 비교, 검토하였다. KBC-2009 기준의 Sc 지반과 SD 지반을 사용하여 구조해석 및 내진설계를 수행하고, SD에 해당하는 지반의 동적 지진 실험결과의 스펙트럼가속도(SDS)를 사용하여 구조해석 및 내진설계를 수행하여 상호 비교 고찰한 결과, 지반의 종류 SD 지반에 해당하는 연약지반의 경우라도 동적 실험 및 해석을 수행하여 지반의 스펙트럼 가속도를 산정하여 구조해석에 적용할 경우 Sc 지반과 유사한 정도의 철근 물량 값을 얻을 수 있었고, 이것은 당초 연약지반으로 고려되던 SD 지반으로 설계하는 경우에 비하여 17~23% 정도의 물량을 절감할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.115-120
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• 2014

현재 국내 내진설계기준에서 제시하고 있는 지반분류 방법 및 지반 증폭계수는 기반암이 주로 30m 이내에 위치하는 일반적인 국내 지반특성을 제대로 반영하지 못하고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 점성토 지반에 근입된 비정형 말뚝기초(PHC 500, 중심 간격 3D)에 대한 동적 원심모형 실험을 실시하여 자유장과 기초판의 응답 스펙트럼 결과를 비교하였다. 장주기 영역에서는 SE 지반의 설계 스펙트럼 가속도보다 기초와 자유장에서 계측된 실제 스펙트럼 가속도가 작게 나타났고, 기초에서 발생한 스펙트럼 가속도는 지진 하중이 커지면 SD 지반의 설계 스펙트럼 가속도와 유사해지는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이것은 연약한 지반(SE 지반)에 대한 현행 설계기준이 지진 하중을 과대평가하고 있으며 비경제적 설계를 할 수 있음을 의미한다. 1.5초 이상의 장주기 영역에서는 실험에서 측정된 스펙트럼 가속도가 SC 지반의 표준설계응답스펙트럼 가속도보다 작게 나타났고 기초 및 자유장 조건에 의한 스펙트럼 가속도 차이가 거의 발생하지 않았다. 따라서, 실제 아파트에 해당하는 1.5초 이상의 장주기에서는 국내 지반조건을 고려하여 실험에서 측정된 스펙트럼 가속도를 설계에 적용하면 표준설계스펙트럼을 적용할 때 보다 경제적인 설계가 가능한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.739-746
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• 2015

Several damage counting methods can be applied for the fatigue issues of a ground vehicle system using strain data and acceleration data is partially used for a high cyclic loading case. For a vibration test, acceleration data is, however, more useful than strain one owing to the good nature of signal-to-random ratio at acceleration response. The test severity can be judged by the fatigue damage and the pseudo-damage from the acceleration response stated in ISO-16750-3 is one of sound solutions for the vibration test. The comparison of fatigue damages, derived from both acceleration and strain, are analyzed in this study to determine the best choice of fatigue damage over multi-spectral input pattern. Uniaxial excitation test was conducted for a notched simple specimen and response data, both acceleration and strain, are used for the comparison of fatigue damages.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제69권3호
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• pp.293-306
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• 2019

In current seismic design codes, various elastic design acceleration spectra are defined considering different seismological and soil characteristics and are widely used tool for calculation of seismic loads acting on structures. Response spectrum analyses directly use the elastic design acceleration spectra whereas time history analyses use acceleration records of earthquakes whose acceleration spectra fit the design spectra of seismic codes. Due to the fact that obtaining coherent structural response quantities with the seismic design code considerations is a desired circumstance in dynamic analyses, the response spectra of earthquake records used in time history analyses had better fit to the design acceleration spectra of seismic codes. This paper evaluates structural response distributions of multi-story reinforced concrete frames obtained from nonlinear time history analyses which are performed by using the scaled earthquake records compatible with various elastic design spectra. Time domain scaling procedure is used while processing the response spectrum of real accelerograms to fit the design acceleration spectra. The elastic acceleration design spectra of Turkish Seismic Design Code 2007, Uniform Building Code 1997 and Eurocode 8 are considered as target spectra in the scaling procedure. Soil classes in different seismic codes are appropriately matched up with each other according to $V_{S30}$ values. The maximum roof displacements and the total base shears of considered frame structures are determined from nonlinear time history analyses using the scaled earthquake records and the results are presented by graphs and tables. Coherent structural response quantities reflecting the influence of elastic design spectra of various seismic codes are obtained.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.365-372
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• 2019

Post-earthquake crisis management is a key capability for a country to be able to recover after a major seismic event. Instrumental seismic data transmitted and processed in a very short time can contribute to better management of the emergency and can give insights on the earthquake's impact on a specific area. Romania is a country with a high seismic hazard, mostly due to the Vrancea intermediate-depth earthquakes. The elastic acceleration response spectrum of a seismic motion provides important information on the level of maximum acceleration the buildings were subjected to. Based on new data analysis and knowledge advancements, the acceleration elastic response spectrum for horizontal ground components recommended by the Romanian seismic codes has been evolving over the last six decades. This study aims to propose a framework for post-earthquake warning based on code spectrum exceedances. A comprehensive background analysis was undertaken using strong motion data from previous earthquakes corroborated with observational damage, to prove the method's applicability. Moreover, a case-study for two densely populated Romanian cities (Focsani and Bucharest) is presented, using data from a $5.5M_W$ earthquake (October 28, 2018) and considering the evolution of the three generations of code-based spectral levels for the two cities. Data recorded in free-field and in buildings were analyzed and has confirmed that no structural damage occurred within the two cities. For future strong seismic events, this tool can provide useful information on the effect of the earthquake on structures in the most exposed areas.