Effects of Ground Motion Duration on the Seismic Performance and Collapse Rate of Light-Frame Wood Houses
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 144, Issue 8
Abstract
This paper studies the effects of long duration ground motion on three conventional low-rise light-frame wood houses with different sheathing configurations. These are two-story residential houses built with an oriented strand board (OSB) wall system and stucco sheathing, an OSB wall system without stucco, and a horizontal board sheathing wall system without stucco. Three-dimensional numerical models of the structures were developed using the Timber3D program and calibrated with full-scale shake table test data. The shear wall systems were simulated with the modified Stewart (MSTEW) model that accounts for cyclic and in-cycle degradation. For this study, seven short duration ground motions from the China Lushan earthquake of 2013 and seven long duration motions from the adjacent 2008 Wenchuan earthquake were selected. Both suites of motions were recorded at the same strong motion stations and were spectrally matched to have similar spectra. Fragility curves for collapse and drift exceedance were derived based on incremental dynamic analysis (IDA). Results indicate that under long duration motions, median collapse capacities for the three houses are reduced by 26–61% compared to that due to short duration motions. A 1% lesser peak interstory drift (ISD) approaching collapse was also estimated under long duration motions. In addition, for a 3% design drift limit, there is a 17% higher probability of exceeding this drift due to long duration shaking. This study demonstrates that from the three types of houses analyzed in this study, house that had blocked shearwalls with OSB sheathing showed significantly higher seismic resistance than the other two housing types analyzed, while house that used horizontal wood boards showed the lowest resistance. Structures with horizontal board sheathing should not be permitted in areas of significant seismic activity.
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Acknowledgments
This research is funded by a NSERC Discovery research grant awarded to the second author. The first author would like to acknowledge the funding support from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for his Ph.D. program. The authors would also like to acknowledge Tongji University and Sichuan University in China for sharing the ground motion records. The testing data and technical supports provided from EERF, UBC, are greatly appreciated. The valuable comments and suggestions from three anonymous reviewers helped to improve the quality of the paper and are highly acknowledged. A special thanks is given to Dr. Weichiang Pang for sharing the Timber3D program.
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Volume 144 • Issue 8 • August 2018
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Received: Sep 6, 2017
Accepted: Feb 4, 2018
Published online: May 31, 2018
Published in print: Aug 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Oct 31, 2018
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