Development of site-specific design ground motions in Western and Eastern North America     

Walter Silva  Carl Costantino   《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2002,22(9-12):755-764

This paper presents results recently obtained for generating site-specific ground motions needed for design of critical facilities. The general approach followed in developing these ground motions using either deterministic or probabilistic criteria is specification of motions for rock outcrop or very firm soil conditions followed by adjustments for site-specific conditions. Central issues in this process include development of appropriate attenuation relations and their uncertainties, differences in expected motions between Western and Eastern North America, and incorporation of site-specific adjustments that maintain the same hazard level as the control motions, while incorporating uncertainties in local dynamic material properties. For tectonically active regions, such as the Western United States (WUS), sufficient strong motion data exist to constrain empirical attenuation relations for M up to about 7 and for distances greater than about 10–15 km. Motions for larger magnitudes and closer distances are largely driven by extrapolations of empirical relations and uncertainties need to be substantially increased for these cases.

For the Eastern United States (CEUS), due to the paucity of strong motion data for cratonic regions worldwide, estimation of strong ground motions for engineering design is based entirely on calibrated models. The models are usually calibrated and validated in the WUS where sufficient strong motion data are available and then recalibrated for applications to the CEUS. Recalibration generally entails revising parameters based on available CEUS ground motion data as well as indirect inferences through intensity observations. Known differences in model parameters such as crustal structure between WUS and CEUS are generally accommodated as well. These procedures are examined and discussed.  相似文献   

拱坝非线性地震反应分析   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

肖诗云  林皋  李宏男 《地震工程与工程振动》2002,22(4):36-40

本文根据一致粘弹性模型的概念，引入应变率的影响，将混凝土静态William-Warnke三参数模型改造成一致粘塑性William-Warnke三参数本构模型，并用这个模型对某高拱坝进行了非线性地震响应分析，与线弹性模型和应变率无关的William-Warnke三参数模型的结果进行了比较，初步探讨了应变率对拱坝地震反应的影响。  相似文献   

挡块对斜拉桥抗震性能的影响   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

余建星  王新岐 《地震工程与工程振动》2002,22(4):114-119

本文基于现有永和斜拉桥挡块设施的严重破损，引入非线性挡块元，采用有限元计算分析挡块对斜拉桥抗震性能的影响。结果表明，斜拉桥塔根挡块的调协对减震效果影响不大，但挡块具有减小塔顶残余变形的有利作用。鉴于此，对永和斜拉桥挡块进行修复是必要的。  相似文献   

求解变分不等式的Newton迭代的半局部收敛性分析     

王征宇  沈祖和 《华东地质学院学报》2003,26(2):159-162

分析了求解变分不等式Newton方法的半局部收敛性，建立了类似于Kantorovich定理的收敛性结果。该结果不仅为判断Newton方法的收敛性提供了可计算的充分条件，也给出了Newton方法的收敛域以及问题解的存在区域。同时，文章也得到了Newton方法的若干收敛性质，包含收敛阶以及可计算的误差估计式等。  相似文献   

考虑几何非线性的强夯流固动力耦合分析     

谢能刚  宋修广  王璐 《水文地质工程地质》2003,30(5):44-48

针对强夯法加固地基机理的流固动力耦合分析问题,本文考虑土体的几何非线性,建立土体非线性动力平衡方程和整体流固动力耦合方程,给出土体非线性动力平衡方程的迭代计算格式和流固动力耦合方程的解耦计算方法,并对一具体算例进行了数值分析,得到了地基位移、应力等在强夯作用下的变化规律和在空间上的分布特征,为精确模拟分析强夯加固机理提供了有效途径。  相似文献   

河南及邻区地震前中小地震活跃-平静的定量指标研究     

王会义 《华北地震科学》2003,21(2):43-48

以累计频度定量计算方法，分区讨论了河南及邻区1970年以来地震活动非线性度ZL值的时间进程曲线，系统计算了M≥5．0级地震前的ZL值，结果表明：开始出现活跃(平静)异常的时间集中在地震前1—2年，结束异常的时间在地震前一年内，集中于0—4个月。同时提出了异常的定量指标以及发震类型。  相似文献   

Nonlinear Rate Dependent Model of High Damping Rubber Bearing     

Robert Jankowski 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2003,1(3):397-403

The accurate analysis of the response of isolated structures requires the application of appropriate models of isolation devices. The purpose of this paper is to analyse a nonlinear strain rate dependent model of a high damping rubber bearing which simulates the horizontal behaviour of the device under specified vertical load using a nonlinear elastic spring-dashpot element. The effectiveness of the model is checked by fitting the experimental data concerning three different rubber bearings. The results of the study show that the model can simulate the bearing behaviour over a wide shear strain range with small simulation errors. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Permeability Estimation with the Augmented Lagrangian Method for a Nonlinear Diffusion Equation     

Trygve K. Nilssen  Trond Mannseth  Xue-Cheng Tai 《Computational Geosciences》2003,7(1):27-47

We consider numerical identification of the piecewise constant permeability function in a nonlinear parabolic equation, with the augmented Lagrangian method. By studying this problem, we aim at also gaining some insight into the potential ability of the augmented Lagrangian method to handle permeability estimation within the full two-phase porous-media flow setting. The identification is formulated as a constrained minimization problem. The parameter estimation problem is reduced to a coupled nonlinear algebraic system, which can be solved efficiently with the conjugate gradient method. The methodology is developed and numerical experiments with the proposed method are presented.  相似文献   

偏心结构非线性地震反应分析的一种简化方法   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

戴君武  张敏政  郭迅  黄玉龍 《地震工程与工程振动》2003,23(3):60-67

本文建立了基于结构状态方程和偏心结构体系的层剪力-扭矩等效屈服EYST面概念的求解平扭耦联非线性地震反应的分离-予估-修正递推算法，编制了相应的计算程序。通过与三个单层偏心结构模型的破坏性地震模拟试验结果的对比，验证了小变形阶段平-扭耦联地震反应算法的实用性和可靠性。算例表明，该程序数据处理量小，运算快捷，便于应用。  相似文献   

考虑空间效应的非线性结构主共振分析   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

姜忻良  骆兰月 《地震工程与工程振动》2003,23(3):68-73

本文针对考虑空间效应非对称刚度的单层结构，利用能量法得到了结构水平侧移和扭转相耦合的振动方程，采用多尺度法研究了侧移刚度和扭转刚度之间有某一关系时的主共振，分析了结构主共振的定常解并且讨论了其稳定性，通过算例分析得到了考虑空间效应时结构的一些有益的结论。  相似文献