Due to the development of structural engineering technology, there is a growing demand for various types of irregular structures. Such an irregular structure induces torsion or stress concentration resulting the decrease of seismic performance capacit...
Due to the development of structural engineering technology, there is a growing demand for various types of irregular structures. Such an irregular structure induces torsion or stress concentration resulting the decrease of seismic performance capacity. Therefore, the realistic seismic performance evaluation of existing irregular structures requires detailed analysis such as dynamic analysis. However, the existing dynamic analysis methodology is not only time consuming but also there is the limitation of objective and in – depth analysis for the evaluation of seismic performance degradation and seismic vulnerability due to its irregularities. Therefore, a more rational approach is needed to analyze the seismic vulnerability of atypical structures, and it is necessary to grasp the seismic vulnerability and present a distinctive response index for it.
In this study, four low story models and two detailed medium story models were set as prototypes with various natural period and structural characteristics by modifying the member cross – sections to establish the same regular and irregular structure models. In addition, the thirty historic and artificial earthquake records with different dynamic characteristics classifying into 2%(strong), 10%(moderate), and 50%(low) probability of exceedance in 50 years were used.
The final analyzed 15,427 models were normalized by a stochastic statistical method. Based on the results, response characteristics, structural damage and energy analysis results were presented. In addition, seismic performance evaluation for each structural model was performed by plotting the nonlinear response spectra corresponding to each response index according to the suite of earthquake records. As a result, the seismic vulnerability of the irregular structures could be evaluated effectively.