Title of article
Deflection-basedmethodforseismicresponseanalysisofconcretewalls:BenchmarkingofCAMUSexperimentOriginalResearchArticle
Author/Authors
PrabirC.Basu، نويسنده , , A.D.Roshan، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
Pages
12
From page
1288
To page
1299
Abstract
AnumberofshaketabletestshadbeenconductedonthescaleddownmodelofaconcretewallaspartofCAMUSexperiment.Theexperimentswereconductedbetween1996and1998intheCEAfacilitiesinSaclay,France.BenchmarkingofCAMUSexperimentswasundertakenasapartofthecoordinatedresearchprogramon‘SafetySignificanceofNear-FieldEarthquakes’organisedbyInternationalAtomicEnergyAgency(IAEA).Techniqueofdeflection-basedmethodwasadoptedforbenchmarkingexercise.Non-linearstaticprocedureofdeflection-basedmethodhastwobasicsteps:pushoveranalysis,anddeterminationoftargetdisplacementorperformancepoint.Pushoveranalysisisananalyticalproceduretoassessthecapacitytowithstandseismicloadingeffectthatastructuralsystemcanofferconsideringtheredundanciesandinelasticdeformation.Outcomeofapushoveranalysisistheplotofforce–displacement(baseshear–top/roofdisplacement)curveofthestructure.Thisisobtainedbystep-by-stepnon-linearstaticanalysisofthestructurewithincreasingvalueofload.Thesecondstepistodeterminetargetdisplacement,whichisalsoknownasperformancepoint.Thetargetdisplacementisthelikelymaximumdisplacementofthestructureduetoaspecifiedseismicinputmotion.Establishedprocedures,FEMA-273andATC-40,areavailabletodeterminethismaximumdeflection.TheresponsesofCAMUStestspecimenaredeterminedbydeflection-basedmethodandanalyticallycalculatedvaluescomparewellwiththetestresults.
Journal title
Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
Serial Year
2007
Journal title
Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
Record number
941388
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