It is conventional to assume that the role of the soil-structure interaction (SSI) is beneficial to the buildings under seismic loading. However, lessons learned from recent earthquakes revealed that this assumption could be misleading, and SSI may have different effects on the seismic response of different structural systems. In this study, an enhanced soil-structure numerical model is developed and verified using ABAQUS software to assess the impact of SSI on high-rise frame-core tube structures. The seismic responses of 20, 30, and 40-storey buildings constructed on soil class Ee (according to Australian Standards) under four earthquake acceleration records have been studied. The results in terms of maximum lateral deflections, foundation rocking, inter-storey drifts and storey shear forces for the rigid base and flexible base frame-core tube structures have been discussed and compared. Generally, SSI has a remarkable impact on the seismic behaviour of high-rise frame-core tube structures since it can increase the lateral deflections and inter-storey drifts and decrease storey shear forces of structures. However, It is worth noting that the seismic responses of soil-structure systems under near and far field earthquakes are considerably different.

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Effects of dynamic soil-structure interaction on seismic behaviour of high-rise buildings

Seismic response analysis of intake tower structure under near-fault ground motions with forward-directivity and fling-step effects

This paper reports the study of the effects on structural seismic resilience of near fault pulse-like ground motions recorded in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Some near fault pulse-like and far fau...

Near fault ground motion effects on seismic resilience of frame structures damaged in Wenchuan earthquake

The structural behaviour of adjacent buildings during a structural pounding and the impact of which has been a subject of discussion for many years and soil-structure interaction (SSI) has been ignored in the design due to its complexity. However, recent research showed that SSI effects can increase the lateral deflections in structures founded on soft deposits. SSI can also affect the inter-storey drifts on a similar founding soil, causing inelastic behaviour and subsequently severe damages. This study attempts to conduct a comprehensive review and comparison of the past and present studies with and without soil-structure interaction effect to show the significance of SSI on structural pounding and hence the need for a new seismic design approach by considering the detrimental influences of SSI on structures, in particular on adjacent buildings at proximity of each other. The displacement and inter-storey drifts are compared with future predictions to better understanding of pounding effect on these building and subsequently improve the design to mitigate the impact.

Impact of structural pounding on structural behaviour of adjacent buildings considering dynamic soil-structure interaction


 The addition of a rocking structural system will soften the connection between a foundation and superstructure and help the beam-column connections to become softer than typical ones. These structures, with the addition of rocking structural systems, follow the elastic gap opening mechanism to soften the structural seismic response. Post-tensioned energy dissipating devices and dampers are used in rocking systems to enable the structure to return to its initial position (self-centering) and to dissipate seismic energy, respectively. The current study investigated the use of a rocking shear wall system in steel moment-resistant and hinged frames and determined the amount of damage and the economic effects on the structures. For this purpose, 3D models of 3-, 9-, and 20-story SAC-project steel frames were modeled and validated according to FEMA-355C and then a hybrid rocking shear wall was added to them. The structures were designed and modeled according to common seismic codes and were analyzed using nonlinear time history when subjected to a series of records from FEMA-355C. The results showed that the use of a hinged frame attached to a rocking concrete shear wall (HFR) increased the fundamental period and inter-story displacement and decreased the amount of steel used in the 3-, 9-, and 20-story models compared to similar models with fixed connections in moment frames (MFR). The HFR shear wall models exhibited better seismic performance than MFR models, which increased their load-bearing capacity and reduced their weight, which reduced construction costs.

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Seismic performance of steel moment and hinged frames with rocking shear walls

The reliability or the safety index is a measure of how far a structure is from the state of collapse. Also it defined as the probability that a structure will not fail in its lifetime. Having any increase in the reliability index is typically interpreted as increasing in the safety of structures. On the other hand most of researchers acknowledged that one of the most effective means of increasing both the reliability and the safety of structures is to increase the structural redundancy. They also acknowledged that increasing the number of vertical seismic framing will make structural system more reliable and safer against stochastic events such as earthquakes. In this paper the reliability index and the behavior factor of a numbers of three dimensional RC moment resisting frames with the same story area, equal lateral resistant as well as different redundancy has been evaluated numerically using both deterministic and probabilistic approaches. Study on the reliability index and the behavior factor in the case study models of this research illustrated that the changes of these two factors do not have always the same manner due to the increasing of the structural redundancy. In some cases, structures with larger reliability index have smaller behavior factor. Also assuming the same ultimate lateral resistance of structures which causes an increase to a certain level of redundancy can enhance behavior factor of structures. However any further increase in the redundancy of that certain level might decrease the behavior factor. Furthermore, the results of this study illustrate that concerning any increase in the structural redundancy will make the reliability index of structure to be larger.

Structural reliability index versus behavior factor in RC frames with equal lateral resistance

Practical design of tall frame-tube and diagrids are formulated as two discrete optimization problems searching for minimal weight under codified constraints under gravitational and wind loading due to Iranian codes of practice for steel structures (Part 6 & Part 10). Particular encoding of design vector is proposed to efficiently handle both problems leading to minimal search space. Two types of modeling are employed for the sizing problem; one by rigid floors without rotational degrees of freedom and the other with both translational and rotational degrees of freedom. The optimal layout of diagrids using rigid model is searched as the second problem. Then performance of Mine Blast Optimization as a recent meta-heuristic is evaluated in these problems treating a number of three-dimensional structural models via comparative study with the common Harmony Search and Particle Swarm Optimization. Considerable benefit in material cost minimization is obtained by these algorithms using tuned parameters. Consequently, effectiveness of HS is observed less than the other two while MBO has shown considerable convergence rate and particle swarm optimiztion is found more trustable in global search of the second problem. Received: 10 October 2014; Accepted: 20 February 2015

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Optimal wind resistant design of tall buildings utilizing mine blast algorithm

This paper provides a general perspective of the seismic performance of a nature-inspired, honey-comb grid structural system, known as a hexagrid, under near-field ground motions. Seismic performance of this skeleton is then compared to that of a bundled-tube, as a conventional and efficient load-resisting system in order to provide a better perception of the seismic behavior of a hexagrid skeleton. Two 20-story buildings with bundled-tube and hexagrid skeleton were studied. Nonlinear behavior of the structures was investigated through 3-D finite element computer models and nonlinear time history analyses by subjecting the models to seven three-component records of scaled near-field ground motions. Distribution of peak inter story drift and corner beam-column joint rotations were calculated and compared. Results indicated that by replacing the exterior columns of the bundled-tube system with inclined beam-column elements of nature-inspired hexagons, lateral stiffness of the building increased and it would tolerate less deformations before global dynamic instability is reached. The presence of inclined columns in the hexagrid skeleton helped to concentrate local nonlinearities in ring beams rather than exterior columns.

Seismic assessment of nature-inspired hexagrid lateral load-resisting system

Saeid Valian, Afshin Meshkat-Dini, Jafar Keyvani, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran Extended Abstract (Paper pages 701-726) Introduction The nature of near-field earthquake records is very complicated and uncertain. Due to this complexity, the prediction of the real structural responses has become very difficult. Based on the analysis of the physical characteristics of near-field records, it is possible to use the simplified mathematical models. Near-field ground motions which are often associated with a progressive directional phenomenon due to their particular type of the causative fault, have much more destructive effects on the structures than the other quake tremors. The related research results show that under the influence of a strong near-field ground motion which contains forward directivity effects, the structural responses would be entered to a great nonlinear domain. On the other hand, due to the limited number of available near-field records, it is needed to prepare artificial acclerograms which can simulate the characteristics of the strong ground motions. Thus, it is possible to achieve a vast data base corresponding to wide range of powerful ground motions using mathematical wavelets. As a result, it provides a general overview of these types of artificial quake tremors and prepares an extended knowledge on the performance of structures in confronting these destructive movements.

Mathematical Modeling of Strong Ground Velocity Pulses using Spectral Decomposition and Forward Directivity Effects

In this research, the performance abilities of tube type lateral load resistant framed systems are studied in order to assess the dynamic response properties of mid-rise steel structures under effects of far and near-field ground motions. For this purpose, three 10 story structural models with separated framed tube based skeletons were selected and designed. The structural models have been designed according to the Iranian seismic code 2800 (4th edition). The main criterion which was considered to select powerful ground motions for performing nonlinear time history analyses is the existence of energized coherent velocity pulses as well as high amplitude acceleration spikes in the time history of each earthquake record. Assessment of the analytical results should emphasize the importance of both lateral displacement and drift parameters which must be taken into account during the structural design phase. Furthermore, it was concluded that the maximum drift demand is more than 0.035 and the upper level of rotation of rigid connecting zones was obtained more than 5 percentages of a radian. As a general note, it was concluded that the seismic response parameters of mid-rise steel framed tube structures are intensively influenced by those strong earthquake records which contain powerful forward directivity effects and are able to emerge long period pulses in their time histories.

Study on the Seismic Response Parameters of Steel Medium-Height Buildings with Framed-Tube Skeleton under Near-Fault Records

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