Simplified assessment of maximum interstory drift for RC buildings with irregular infills distribution along the height
Autor: | Maria Polese, M. Gaetani d’Aragona, Andrea Prota, Edoardo Cosenza |
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Přispěvatelé: | Gaetani d’Aragona, M., Polese, M., Cosenza, E., Prota, A. |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
Cantilever
0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Displacement (vector) Opening Simplified method medicine Infill Roof Civil and Structural Engineering Mathematics Spectral approach 021110 strategic defence & security studies Hydrogeology business.industry Stiffness Interstory drift ratio Building and Construction Structural engineering Function (mathematics) Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Existing building Reinforced concrete Cracking Geophysics Lateral stiffne Irregular frame medicine.symptom business Infilled frame |
Zdroj: | Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 17:707-736 |
ISSN: | 1573-1456 1570-761X |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10518-018-0473-y |
Popis: | This paper investigates on the effect of story lateral stiffness variation on the maximum elastic interstory drift ratio (IDRmax) for existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. Several classes of existing gravity load designed RC buildings are obtained via a simulated design approach. The presence of infills in the perimeter frames as well as different opening percentages along the height are considered. A simplified elastic analysis is performed, adopting an equivalent multistory cantilever system to represent the stiffness variation along the buildings height. IDRmax is significantly influenced by the ratio of the lateral stiffness at the second and upper stories over the lateral stiffness of the first story. Such a ratio has been found dependent on a number of geometric and configuration factors, including the variation of the opening percentage ratio. Two regression formulas are proposed to estimate, given the spectral displacement at the fundamental period T, the roof displacement and IDRmax as a function of the building height and the opening percentage at first and upper stories. Suitable modification of the formulas is also introduced to account for possible cracking of RC elements and infill panels even at very low levels of lateral drift. These expressions could be used for the simplified evaluation of the expected drift demands for buildings of existing RC typologies. Finally, the proposed formulations are applied to a number of permanently monitored buildings, comparing the calculated IDRmax with the one resulting from record processing, obtaining a fair good agreement. |
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