{"title":"Fragility curves of sequential earthquakes for RC buildings in Japan","authors":"Mahnoosh Biglari, Yoshiki Ikeda, Hiroshi Kawase","doi":"10.1007/s10518-024-01949-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Structures in earthquake-prone areas may suffer from accumulative damages caused by sequential shocks, including the mainshock and aftershock of an earthquake or several strong motions throughout their service lifespan. Sequential shocks lead to a decrease in the capacity of structures. Nevertheless, seismic fragility curves and their applications do not often consider the sequential effect. This study investigates the impact of sequential seismic events on seismic fragility curves of 3-, 6-, and 9-story reinforced concrete buildings constructed before and after 1982 in Japan. The research proposes analytical fragility curves based on dynamic nonlinear multi-degree-of-freedom analyses under the influence of single shock and sequential shock of recorded motions of six destructive earthquakes in Japan. The results demonstrate that the seismic sequence increases the probability of damage ratio. This increase in the fragility curve follows the Gaussian function. The study presents a regression model that can be used for other seismic areas to estimate the effect of seismic sequences on single shock seismic fragility curves.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":9364,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering","volume":"22 9","pages":"4657 - 4676"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10518-024-01949-2","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Structures in earthquake-prone areas may suffer from accumulative damages caused by sequential shocks, including the mainshock and aftershock of an earthquake or several strong motions throughout their service lifespan. Sequential shocks lead to a decrease in the capacity of structures. Nevertheless, seismic fragility curves and their applications do not often consider the sequential effect. This study investigates the impact of sequential seismic events on seismic fragility curves of 3-, 6-, and 9-story reinforced concrete buildings constructed before and after 1982 in Japan. The research proposes analytical fragility curves based on dynamic nonlinear multi-degree-of-freedom analyses under the influence of single shock and sequential shock of recorded motions of six destructive earthquakes in Japan. The results demonstrate that the seismic sequence increases the probability of damage ratio. This increase in the fragility curve follows the Gaussian function. The study presents a regression model that can be used for other seismic areas to estimate the effect of seismic sequences on single shock seismic fragility curves.
期刊介绍:
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering presents original, peer-reviewed papers on research related to the broad spectrum of earthquake engineering. The journal offers a forum for presentation and discussion of such matters as European damaging earthquakes, new developments in earthquake regulations, and national policies applied after major seismic events, including strengthening of existing buildings.
Coverage includes seismic hazard studies and methods for mitigation of risk; earthquake source mechanism and strong motion characterization and their use for engineering applications; geological and geotechnical site conditions under earthquake excitations; cyclic behavior of soils; analysis and design of earth structures and foundations under seismic conditions; zonation and microzonation methodologies; earthquake scenarios and vulnerability assessments; earthquake codes and improvements, and much more.
This is the Official Publication of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering.