SHM-Based Seismic Performance Assessment of High-Rise Buildings under Long-Period Ground Motion
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 145, Issue 6
Abstract
Long-period ground motions from large-magnitude distant earthquakes can cause serious damage to high-rise buildings, even to those located in intraplate urban areas. Real-time monitoring and postearthquake performance assessment of high-rise buildings are therefore essential. Using an integrated optimal sensor placement and response reconstruction scheme, this paper proposes a determinstic real-time warning system and a probabilistic postearthquake performance assessment method for high-rise buildings during and after long-period earthquakes, respectively. Both the warning system and the assessment method make good use of the accurate and complete estimation of all the key structural responses reconstructed from the incomplete measurement data from limited sensors installed in the building. The warning system monitors the building structural behavior in real-time and issues various levels of warning whenever it detects structural responses exceeding the preset safety thresholds. The assessment method evaluates the structural component integrity after an earthquake in a probabilistic manner, incorporating the extreme value distribution of the reconstructed structural responses with the structural component fragility functions to determine the damage probabilities of the structural components. The proposed warning system and assessment method were applied to a superhigh-rise building as a case study. The results from the case study showed that the proposed warning system and assessment method are feasible and effective and have good potential for real application in high-rise buildings.
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Acknowledgments
The work in this paper is financially supported by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as part of the group project “Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering for Hong Kong.” The first author appreciates the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) for providing the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship and the Faculty of Construction Engineering for providing the one-year top-up studentship. The authors sincerely thank Prof. X. Z. Lu from Tsinghua University and Dr. X. Lu from Beijing Jiaotong University for sharing knowledge about the nonlinear behavior of the FE model of the high-rise building and providing the simplified 2D FE model. Great appreciation goes to Dr. Tien from the Georgia Institute of Technology for the discussion of the analytical extreme value distribution function.
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Volume 145 • Issue 6 • June 2019
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Received: May 15, 2018
Accepted: Nov 6, 2018
Published online: Mar 19, 2019
Published in print: Jun 1, 2019
Discussion open until: Aug 19, 2019
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