Title

Inelastic analyses of a 17-story steel framed building damaged during Northridge

Keywords

Building; Connections; Dynamic analysis; Earthquake; Fracture; Inelastic analysis; Seismic; Steel frame

Abstract

A series of two- and three-dimensional static and dynamic inelastic frame analyses are performed for a 17-story steel moment frame building damaged by the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The primary objectives of the study are to: (1) exercise state-of-the-art inelastic static and dynamic analyses for the evaluation and design of steel buildings; (2) establish to what degree frame analyses can be used to predict the types of brittle connection damage that occurred during the Northridge earthquake; and (3) investigate the reliability of the analyses and the influence of modeling parameters on computed performance indices. In general, this study shows that calculated interstory drift ratios and curvature demands obtained from inelastic time history analyses correlate reasonably well with the pattern of connection damage observed in the building. However, there is significant scatter in the computed deformation demands that are strongly dependent on the degree to which three-dimensional torsion, secondary structural elements and strength/stiffness degradation (associated with connection fractures) are modeled in the analyses. Further, comparisons of static and dynamic analyses indicate that for this building static pushover analyses do not capture higher vibration modes that are significant. © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Publication Title

Engineering Structures

Volume

20

Issue

4-6

Number of Pages

481-495

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0141-0296(97)00036-9

Socpus ID

0032044753 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0032044753

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