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| Title: | Seismic performance evaluation methodologies for civil engineering structures |
| Authors: | Jeyasehar, C Antony
Kumar, K Sathish
Muthumani, K
Lakshmanan, N |
| Keywords: | Seismic performance
performance evaluation
earthquake engineering
shake table testing
effective force testing
pseudo dynamic testing
real time dynamic hybrid testing |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2009 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | There is a strong need for evaluating the adequacy of seismic performance
of civil engineering structures following the damage and collapse of numerous
structures during recent earthquakes. In addition, the adequacy of seismic
performance of the older structures in regions of high seismicity, which are
designed prior to the advent of revised seismic deign codes, is also a matter
of growing concern. Seismic performance evaluation of civil engineering
structures is an iterative process involving alternate stages of
experimentation and computation. Several experimental methodologies including quasi-static
testing, effective force testing, shake table testing, pseudo dynamic testing
and real time dynamic hybrid testing and computational methodologies based on
different numerical time stepping procedures are used to simulate and evaluate
the seismic performance of civil engineering structures. In this paper a broad overview on the
existing computational and experimental seismic performance evaluation
methodologies is reported. The paper also presents the genesis, development and
mathematical formulation of the pseudo dynamic testing method in detail and
highlights the merits and demerits of the method over the other experimental
seismic performance evaluation methods |
| Page(s): | 220-228 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1017 (Online); 0971-4588 (Print) |
| Source: | IJEMS Vol.16(4) [August 2009]
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