Developing fragility curves for a pile-supported wharf |
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| Authors: | Jiunn-Shyang Chiou Chi-Han Chiang Ho-Hsiung Yang Shang-Yi Hsu |
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| Institution: | 1. National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, 200, Section 3, Xinhai Rd., Taipei, Taiwan 10668, ROC;2. Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, 3F, 106, Ho-Ping E. Road, Section 2, Taipei, Taiwan 106, ROC |
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| Abstract: | This study proposes a procedure for developing seismic fragility curves for a pile-supported wharf. A typical pile-supported wharf, as commonly used in the ports of Taiwan, is chosen for demonstration. For a structural model of the wharf, the deck is modeled by shell elements and the Winkler model is used for the pile–soil system, in which the piles and soils are represented by beam elements and springs, respectively. A pushover analysis with lateral loads distributed according to the fundamental modal shape of the wharf structure is conducted to deduce the capacity curve of the wharf. The procedure for developing fragility curves can be explicitly performed using the spreadsheet platform in Microsoft EXCEL. First, quantitative criteria for damage states are established from the sequence of development of plastic zones. Then a nonlinear static procedure called the Spectrum Capacity Method (CSM) is used to efficiently construct a response matrix of the wharf to 24 earthquake events with differing levels of peak ground acceleration (PGA). Based on the damage criteria and the response matrix, the fragility curves of the wharf can be thus constructed through simple statistical analysis. Shifted lognormal cumulative distribution functions are also employed to better approximate the fragility curves for practical applications. |
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