OPTIMIZATION OF ENDURANCE TIME ACCELERATION FUNCTIONS FOR SEISMIC ASSESSMENT OF STRUCTURES

  • سال انتشار: 1390
  • محل انتشار: مجله بهینه سازی در مهندسی عمران، دوره: 1، شماره: 2
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_IJOCE-1-2_003
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 126
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نویسندگان

A. Nozari

H.E. Estekanchi

چکیده

Numerical simulation of structural response is a challenging issue in earthquake engineering and there has been remarkable progress in this area in the last decade. Endurance Time (ET) method is a new response history based analysis procedure for seismic assessment and structural design in which structures are subjected to a gradually intensifying dynamic excitation and their seismic performance is evaluated based on their responses at different excitation levels. Generating appropriate artificial dynamic excitation is essential in this type of analysis. In this paper, an optimization procedure is presented for computation of the intensifying acceleration functions utilized in the ET method and the results of this procedure are discussed. A set of the ET acceleration functions (ETAFs) is considered which has been produced utilizing numerical optimization considering ۲۰۴۸ acceleration points as optimization variables by an unconstrained optimization procedure. The ET formulation is then modified from the continuous time condition into the discrete time state thus the optimization problem is reformulated as a nonlinear least squares problem. In this way, a second set of the ETAFs is generated which better satisfies the proposed objective function. Subsequently, acceleration points are increased to ۴۰۹۶, for ۴۰ seconds duration, and the third set of the ETAFs is produced using a multi level optimization procedure. Improvement of the ETAFs is demonstrated by analyzing several SDOF systems.

کلیدواژه ها

response history analysis, Endurance Time method, Intensifying acceleration functions, Numerical optimization, Nonlinear least squares

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