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Structural Seismic Fragility Analysis of RC Frame with a New Family of Rayleigh Damping Models

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Computational Methods in Stochastic Dynamics

Part of the book series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences ((COMPUTMETHODS,volume 26))

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Structural seismic vulnerability assessment is one of the key steps in a seismic risk management process. Structural vulnerability can be assessed using the concept of fragility. Structural fragility is the probability for a structure to sustain a given damage level for a given input ground motion intensity, which is represented by so-called fragility curves or surfaces. In this work, we consider a moment-resisting reinforced concrete frame structure in the area of the Cascadia subduction zone, that is in the South-West of Canada and the North-West of the USA. According to shaking table tests, we first validate the capability of an inelastic fiber beam/column element, using a recently developed concrete constitutive law, for representing the seismic behavior of the tested frame coupled to either a commonly used Rayleigh damping model or a proposed new model. Then, for each of these two damping models, we proceed to a structural fragility analysis and investigate the amount of uncertainty to be induced by damping models.

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    Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) is a French mathematician, physician and philosopher. This year is the hundredth anniversary of his death.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Pr. André Filiatrault for providing the data from the shaking table tests used in this work. The first author benefited from partial funding from Électricité de France (EDF) within the research project “MARS” (“Modèles Avancés pour le Risque Sismique”).

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  1. MSSMat, École Centrale Paris/CNRS, Grande Voie des Vignes, 92295, Châtenay-Malabry Cedex, France

    Pierre Jehel

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, École Polytechnique of Montreal, University of Montreal Campus, P.O. Box 6079, Station CV, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3C 3A7

    Pierre Léger

  3. LMT-Cachan, ENS Cachan/CNRS/UPMC/PRES UniverSud Paris, 61 avenue du Président Wilson, 94235, Cachan Cedex, France

    Adnan Ibrahimbegovic

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Jehel, P., Léger, P., Ibrahimbegovic, A. (2013). Structural Seismic Fragility Analysis of RC Frame with a New Family of Rayleigh Damping Models. In: Papadrakakis, M., Stefanou, G., Papadopoulos, V. (eds) Computational Methods in Stochastic Dynamics. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5134-7_16

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