Scaling of ground motions and its implications to plan-asymmetric structures |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, P.R. China;2. Key Laboratory of Civil Engineering Safety and Durability of China Education Ministry, Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China;3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-4020, USA |
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Abstract: | Ground motions are often scaled to certain convenient target spectra in the response assessment of structures. While uniform hazard spectrum (UHS) is more widely used, conditional mean spectrum (CMS) is recently proposed as a more desirable target for scaling of real accelerograms. In this backdrop, the present study spectrally scales, using wavelets, a set of near-field and far-field ground motions to both the targets, viz., UHS and CMS. Relevance of a set of useful ground motion characteristics, viz., the peak ground acceleration-to-peak velocity ratio (amax/vmax), predominant period (Tp), Arias intensity (Ia), Housner intensity (IH), cumulative absolute velocity (CAV) and significant duration (Td⁎), is reviewed. Influence of ground motion scaling is discussed in terms of possible changes of such identified parameters. Seismic demand of horizontally irregular structures is assessed under both scaled and seed records recognizing strength dependent stiffness. Threshold of the scale factor, shown to have well-correlated with the change of ground motion characteristics, may be as high as ~10 to adequately estimate torsion-induced amplification in asymmetric system without any bias. |
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Keywords: | Asymmetry Seismic Scaling Uniform hazard spectrum Conditional mean spectrum Scale factor Ground motion characteristics Plan asymmetry |
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