Three-Dimensional Steel Building Response to Near-Fault Motions
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 126, Issue 1
Abstract
The seismic behavior of a three-story steel framed building designed by consultants for Los Angeles seismic conditions was assessed using 3D dynamic inelastic time-history analyses with near-fault as well as code design level earthquake records. It is shown that 3D frame drifts due to simultaneous strike-normal and strike-parallel shaking were sometimes greater and other times less than for a 2D frame subjected to strike-normal shaking only. The ability of the 30% rule, Square Root of the Sum of the Squares, and Sum-of-Absolute-Values methods to assess building drifts for bidirectional shaking effects is dependent on the reference axes chosen. In come cases, horizontal shaking orthogonal to the principal shaking direction increased drifts in the principal shaking direction by up to 84%. This occurred as a result of biaxial flexural yielding at column bases so that even the Sum-of-Absolute-Values method underestimated the actual drifts. Also, gravity columns, which were pinned at the base, yielded at the top of the first story due to the severe near fault shaking.
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Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 126 • Issue 1 • January 2000
Pages: 117 - 126
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Received: Jun 26, 1999
Published online: Jan 1, 2000
Published in print: Jan 2000
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