Impact of Long-Duration Earthquakes on Successive Earthquake-Tsunami Fragilities for Reinforced Concrete Frame Archetypes
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 150, Issue 10
Abstract
This study quantifies the effects of long-duration earthquakes on the behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings subjected to successive earthquake-tsunamis through the development of fragility surfaces. The suite is comprised of both ductile and nonductile systems, representing a portfolio of RC structures that could be found in a (coastal) community. Previous research has shown that long-duration earthquakes can significantly influence the structural responses and even the collapse behavior of building systems. Earthquakes with large moment magnitudes that produce tsunamis are often long duration events, yet ground motion duration has not been fully considered when generating tsunami fragility curves or successive earthquake-tsunami fragility surfaces. This study incorporates earthquake loading through a nonlinear time history analysis (NLTHA) and subsequent tsunami loading with a nonlinear static procedure. Detailed probabilistic structural models are subjected to both long-duration and regular-duration earthquakes through the NLTHA phase of the successive simulation to explore the possible impact of long-duration earthquakes on earthquake-tsunami fragility surfaces used to represent the behavior of these RC buildings. Results show that failure probabilities from the fragility surfaces are increased by up to 40% in some cases, with low- to mid-rise RC structures (ductile and nonductile; up to 8 stories) being adversely affected by long-duration earthquakes. Furthermore, this study reports the governing parameters of scalar and vector-valued fragility functions in the proposed RC portfolio exposed to long-duration earthquakes and tsunami hazards. These fragility surfaces can be useful in developing community-level models in risk-based or resilience-based decision-support for disaster mitigation.
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Acknowledgments
The Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning is a NIST-funded Center of Excellence; the Center is funded through a cooperative agreement between the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and Colorado State University (NIST Financial Assistance Award Nos. 70NANB15H044 and 70NANB20H008). The views expressed are those of the presenter and may not represent the official position of the National Institute of Standards and Technology or the US Department of Commerce.
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Concrete
- Concrete frames
- Concrete structures
- Disaster risk management
- Disasters and hazards
- Ductility
- Earthquakes
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Engineering mechanics
- Frames
- Geohazards
- Geotechnical engineering
- Material mechanics
- Material properties
- Materials engineering
- Mechanical properties
- Natural disasters
- Reinforced concrete
- Structural behavior
- Structural engineering
- Structural members
- Structural systems
- Structures (by type)
- Tsunamis
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