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Impact of ground-motion duration on nonlinear structural performance: Part I: spectrally equivalent records and inelastic single-degree-of-freedom systems

Otárola, K; Gentile, R; Sousa, L; Galasso, C; (2023) Impact of ground-motion duration on nonlinear structural performance: Part I: spectrally equivalent records and inelastic single-degree-of-freedom systems. Earthquake Spectra 10.1177/87552930231155502. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

In current seismic performance-based assessment approaches, nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures generally relies on ground motions selected based on their pseudo-spectral accelerations, with little or no consideration for ground-motion duration. Part I of this study, presented in this article, attempts to comprehensively quantify the impact of ground-motion duration on the nonlinear structural performance of case-study inelastic single-degree-of-freedom systems for shallow-crustal seismicity conditions. The effect of duration is decoupled from that of ground-motion amplitude and spectral shape by assembling sets of spectrally equivalent long- and short-duration records. Such sets are employed in incremental dynamic analyses of a wide range of computational models incorporating in-cycle and cyclic strength and stiffness deterioration. The structural response is quantified in terms of peak- and cumulative-based engineering demand parameters. Formal hypothesis testing is used to assess the statistical significance of duration’s impact on the median structural capacity of the considered structural systems. Furthermore, the derivation of duration-dependent fragility and vulnerability relationships demonstrates that ground-motion duration effectively impacts the nonlinear structural performance of various systems, and it should be accounted for in current practice. The fragility median values for highly deteriorating structural systems under long-duration ground motions are found to be up to 21% or 34.0% smaller than the short-duration counterpart if a peak- or cumulative-based engineering demand parameter is adopted, respectively.

Type: Article
Title: Impact of ground-motion duration on nonlinear structural performance: Part I: spectrally equivalent records and inelastic single-degree-of-freedom systems
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/87552930231155502
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1177/87552930231155502
Language: English
Additional information: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10168365
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