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Answers of Questions (Per Chapter)
Chapter 2
a(t)
amax
t1 2t1 t
Consider the pulse-like excitation depicted in Fig. 2.35, with amax =0.1g and t1 = 0.15 s.
Calculate the Cumulative Absolute Velocity (CAV) and the Arias Intensity IA.
CAV is given by Eq. (2.3); is simply equal to area under the acceleration time history:
The Arias intensity is given by Eq. (2.4) and is equal to /2g times the area under the
π 2
IA = 2amax t1 = 4.71m/s
2g
Question 2.2
Fig. 2.8 gives the annual probability of exceedance of peak ground acceleration (PGA) at a
given site, from several individual seismic sources. Calculate the annual probability that a
PGA of 0.1g will be exceeded for a building located at that site. For a building structure
designed for a lifetime of 50 years, what is the probability that a PGA of 0.1g will be
For a PGA of 0.1g, all seismic sources contribute to the hazard: the annual probability of
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Seismic Design of Concrete Buildings to Eurocode 8 Instructor’s Manual
7.1×10-6, 2.5×10-5, 2.7×10-5, 4.4×10-5, 7.2×10-5. According to Eq. (2.9), summing the
6.0×10-7+1.5×10-6+3.6×10-6+4.7×10-6+6.1×10-6+7.1×10-6+2.5×10-5+2.7×10-5+4.4×10-5
+7.2×10-5 = 1.92×10-4.
For the lifetime of the structure, this PGA will be exceeded with a probability of (see Eq.
Question 2.3
What is the mode of failure or damage of the beams in Fig. 2.36? Would you characterise this
Question 2.4
What is the mode of failure or damage of the columns in Fig. 2.37? Would you characterise
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Questioon 2.5
(a) (b
b) (cz
(
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All: Shear.
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Figure 2.1 World seismicity between 1900 and 2012. (From United State Geological Survey – USGS.)
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North American
Eurasian plate Eurasian
plate plate
Juan De Fuca
plate
Caribbean Arabian
Philippine plate plate
plate Indian
Cocos plate
plate
Equator
African
plate
Pacific Nazca
plate plate South American
Australian
plate
plate
Australian
plate
Scotia plate
Antarctic
plate
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(a)
Slip
Time
(b)
Fa
ul
t
Figure 2.3 Elastic rebound theory: (a) slip as a function of time; (b) from left to right: initial stage, straining
before earthquake, after earthquake.
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Tectonic stresses
Reverse fault
Figure 2.5 Fault types.
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8.5
M
s
8.0
7.5
Ms = 6.2
7.0 Mw = 6.2
6.5
6.0
5.5
M
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
M
s
~
M
3.0
M
s
b
m
2.5
2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5
Mw
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(a) 0.20
0.10
Acceleration (g)
0.00
–0.10
–0.20
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110
Time (s)
(b) 0.04
0.02
Acceleration (g)
0.00
–0.02
–0.04
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110
Time (s)
Records of the 1985 Michoacán Guerrero earthquake in Mexico City: (a) SCT (soft soil);
Figure 2.7
(b) Tacubaya (rock).
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F2E
10–4
10–5
10–6
10–7
10–1 100 101
Peak ground acceleration (g)
Figure 2.8 Hazard curves: each curve corresponds to a given seismic source.
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θ θ θ
θ θ θ
θ θ θ
θ
θ θ θ
Hlot
θ θ θ
θ θ θ
Hst θst
(d) (e)
δ θ θ
θ θ
θ θ
θ θ
θ θ
θ
θ θ
Hlot
θ θ
θ θ
Figure 2.9 Side-sway plastic mechanisms in concrete buildings: (a) soft-storey mechanism in weak column–
strong beam frame; (b), (c) beam-sway mechanisms in strong column/weak beam frames; (d), (e)
beam-sway mechanisms in wall-frame systems.
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Figure 2.10 (a) Collapse of open ground storey building; (b) collapsed building shown at the background;
similar building at the foreground is still standing with large ground storey drift.
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Figure 2.11 Typical collapses of frame buildings with open ground storey; ‘pancake’ type of collapse shown
on the right.
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Figure 2.13 Collapse of Alto Rio wall building in Concepción, Chile; February 2010 earthquake (structural
walls are shown in black in the framing plan).
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Figure 2.14 Typical concentration of failures or damage in ground storey (a), (b) with role and damage to
infills shown in (c).
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Figure 2.15 Collapse of top floors in Mexico City (1985) or of an intermediate one in Kobe (1995).
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Figure 2.16 Collapse of flexible sides in torsionally imbalanced building with stiffness concentrated near
one corner.
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Figure 2.17 Shear failure of short columns on stiff side (inside rectangle) causes collapse of flexible side as
well.
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Figure 2.19 Shear failure of columns, (a)–(e), including a captive one between the basement perimeter wall
and the beam (c) and short columns due to mid-storey constraint by a stair (d) or a landing (e)
supported on the column.
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Figure 2.20 Despite complete failure of columns across the ground storey, their residual axial load capacity
still supports gravity loads.
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Figure 2.22 Typical features of beam behaviour: (a) pullout of beam bars from narrow corner column, due
to short straight anchorage there; (b) wide crack in slab at right angles to the beam at the con-
nection with the columns shows the large participation of the slab as effective flange width in
tension; (c) failure, with concrete crushing and bar buckling at bottom flange next to the column.
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Figure 2.23 Typical failures of concrete walls: (a) flexural, with damage in shear; (b) in shear; (c) by sliding shear.
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0.60
0.20
0.10
Mexico (1985)
0.00
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6
Acceleration at rock outcrop (g)
Figure 2.25 Relationship between PGA on rock and PGA at ground surface.
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Figure 2.28 Bearing capacity failure due to liquefaction (Hyogo-ken Nambu earthquake, 1995).
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Figure 2.29 Slope failure on State Highway 17, California (Loma Prieta earthquake, 1989).
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Figure 2.30 Bearing capacity failure in Mexico City (Michoacán Guerrero earthquake, 1985).
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Figure 2.32 Settlement of a poorly compacted backfill (Moss Landing, Loma Prieta earthquake, 1989).
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90
80
Number of empty reservoirs
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
<1 1–2 2–6 >6
Hours after the earthquake
Figure 2.34 Loss of reservoirs after the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nambu earthquake. (Modified from O’Rourke,
T.D. 1996. Lessons learned for lifeline engineering from major urban earthquakes. Paper no.
2172. Eleventh World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Acapulco, Mexico.)
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amax
t1 2t1 t
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