{"title":"Rapid assessment of peak storey drift demands on reinforced concrete frame buildings","authors":"T. Sullivan","doi":"10.5459/bnzsee.52.3.109-118","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The peak storey drift demands that an earthquake imposes on a building can be assessed through a detailed engineering seismic assessment or recorded if a building is instrumented. However, for the rapid seismic assessment of a large number of buildings, it is desirable to have a simplified means of estimating storey drift demands. Consequently, this paper proposes a simplified means of quickly estimating storey drift demands on reinforced concrete (RC) frame buildings. Expressions for peak storey drift demand as a function of ground motion intensity are developed by utilising concepts and simplifications available from displacement-based seismic design and assessment methods. The performance of the approach is gauged by comparing predicted storey drift demands with those obtained from rigorous non-linear time-history analyses for a number of case study buildings. The promising results suggest that the approach proposed will be useful for rapidly assessing the likelihood of damage to a range of drift-sensitive elements in modern RC frame buildings.","PeriodicalId":46396,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2019-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.52.3.109-118","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The peak storey drift demands that an earthquake imposes on a building can be assessed through a detailed engineering seismic assessment or recorded if a building is instrumented. However, for the rapid seismic assessment of a large number of buildings, it is desirable to have a simplified means of estimating storey drift demands. Consequently, this paper proposes a simplified means of quickly estimating storey drift demands on reinforced concrete (RC) frame buildings. Expressions for peak storey drift demand as a function of ground motion intensity are developed by utilising concepts and simplifications available from displacement-based seismic design and assessment methods. The performance of the approach is gauged by comparing predicted storey drift demands with those obtained from rigorous non-linear time-history analyses for a number of case study buildings. The promising results suggest that the approach proposed will be useful for rapidly assessing the likelihood of damage to a range of drift-sensitive elements in modern RC frame buildings.