TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of the seismic design factors of RC multi-story buildings
AU - Mwafy, Aman M.
AU - Ebead, Usama Ali Ali
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2011 by Research Publishing Services.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The frequent seismic activities in the UAE along with the adoption of new design provisions necessitates calibrating the seismic design performance factors, namely the reserve strength, response modification and deflection amplification factors, of various structures in this region. This paper briefly discusses sample results from a comprehensive study carried out to verify response factors used in the seismic design of Reinforced Concrete (RC) multi-story buildings in the UAE. For the sake of brevity, the structural design and the adopted approach to develop simulation models for five reference buildings, varying in heights from 20 to 60 stories, using multi-degrees of freedom fiber-based modeling technique is not covered. A large number of inelastic pushover and dynamic collapse analyses are carried out under the effect of twenty earthquake records representing two seismic scenarios and the results are processed to estimate the seismic design factors. The paper presents a systematic seismic vulnerability study and provides practical conclusions that apply to a wide range of multi-story buildings in the UAE.
AB - The frequent seismic activities in the UAE along with the adoption of new design provisions necessitates calibrating the seismic design performance factors, namely the reserve strength, response modification and deflection amplification factors, of various structures in this region. This paper briefly discusses sample results from a comprehensive study carried out to verify response factors used in the seismic design of Reinforced Concrete (RC) multi-story buildings in the UAE. For the sake of brevity, the structural design and the adopted approach to develop simulation models for five reference buildings, varying in heights from 20 to 60 stories, using multi-degrees of freedom fiber-based modeling technique is not covered. A large number of inelastic pushover and dynamic collapse analyses are carried out under the effect of twenty earthquake records representing two seismic scenarios and the results are processed to estimate the seismic design factors. The paper presents a systematic seismic vulnerability study and provides practical conclusions that apply to a wide range of multi-story buildings in the UAE.
KW - Earthquake records
KW - Fiber-based modeling
KW - Seismic design factors
KW - Shear wall buildings
KW - UAE
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U2 - 10.3850/978-981-08-7920-4-S2-S17-cd
DO - 10.3850/978-981-08-7920-4-S2-S17-cd
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84923163785
T3 - ISEC 2011 - 6th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference: Modern Methods and Advances in Structural Engineering and Construction
SP - 977
EP - 982
BT - ISEC 2011 - 6th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference
A2 - Yazdani, Siamak
A2 - Cheung, Sai On
A2 - Singh, Amarjit
A2 - Ghafoori, Nader
PB - Research Publishing Services
T2 - 6th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference: Modern Methods and Advances in Structural Engineering and Construction, ISEC 2011
Y2 - 21 June 2011 through 26 June 2011
ER -