Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Rock Mountain Tunnel
Publication: International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 18, Issue 3
Abstract
Seismic fragility analysis is a way to study the vulnerability of structures considering various uncertainties. In the paper, a seismic vulnerability analysis of rock mountain tunnels is proposed. The uniform design method (UDM), a computationally economic method for experiment design, is adopted here. Through the UDM, experiment samples are generated considering variability of the variables. Different tunnel depths, tunnel scales, rock masses, and lining thicknesses are considered. Verified dynamical finite element analysis is carried out to develop probabilistic seismic demand models. The fragility curves are established based on probabilistic seismic demand models. It is concluded that (1) UDM can generate good samples considering different sources of uncertainties; (2) a comparison between the established vulnerability curves and the empirical ones validate the feasibility of the developed methodology.
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Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank for Prof. Tai-Tien Wang for advising on this paper. The authors thank the High Speed Railway and Natural Science United Foundation (U1434206), the Natural Science Foundation (51038009), the Natural Science Foundation (51578463), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Number: SWJTU11ZT33), and the Innovative Research Team of the Ministry of Education, China (No. IRT0955) for their financial support.
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Volume 18 • Issue 3 • March 2018
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Received: Feb 9, 2016
Accepted: Sep 11, 2017
Published online: Jan 4, 2018
Published in print: Mar 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Jun 4, 2018
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