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    Influence of Near-Fault Ground Motions on the

    Response of Base-Isolated Reinforced Concrete


    Buildings Considering Seismic Pounding

    Deepak R. Pant1,† and Anil C. Wijeyewickrema2,*


    1Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
    2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

    (Received: 15 March 2013; Received revised form: 28 August 2013; Accepted: 9 September 2013)

    Abstract: Performance of base-isolated buildings subjected to near-fault ground


    motions containing long-period pulses is of increasing concern, because these ground
    motions have the potential to impose large seismic demands on structures. A review
    of previous studies on the performance evaluation of base-isolated reinforced concrete
    (RC) buildings under near-fault ground motions shows that these studies lack in the
    consideration of seismic pounding and the use of lower bound and upper bound values
    of isolator properties according to the current state of practice. Accordingly, in this
    study the performance of a typical four-story base-isolated RC building is evaluated
    using a three-dimensional nonlinear finite element model, considering bounding
    values of isolator properties, to investigate the influences of (i) pulse-like nature of
    near-fault ground motions and (ii) seismic pounding with retaining walls at the base.
    Two sets of ground motions containing 14 far-fault non-pulse-like ground motions and
    14 near-fault pulse-like ground motions, representing the risk-targeted maximum
    considered earthquake (MCER), are used. It is found that the response indicators of the
    building under near-fault motions are significantly larger than those under far-fault
    motions. Analysis results reveal that the building response indicators are significantly
    increased due to seismic pounding. Nonetheless, if a bounding analysis is conducted,
    consideration of seismic pounding in the analysis does not have appreciable
    consequences on the prediction of damage to structural elements and drift-sensitive
    nonstructural components, while dramatic increase in floor accelerations due to
    pounding is critical for acceleration-sensitive nonstructural components.

    Key words: base isolation, bounding analysis, near-fault ground motions, seismic pounding.

    1. INTRODUCTION superstructure remains essentially elastic and seismic


    Base isolation is an efficient technique to improve pounding with retaining walls at the base does not
    seismic performance of buildings because inter-story occur. However, extreme nonlinear response of the
    drifts, story shear forces, and floor accelerations of a superstructure and seismic pounding with retaining
    base-isolated building are reduced when compared with walls at the base are two potential consequences of
    those of a conventional fixed-base building (Naeim and strong near-fault ground motions acting on base-isolated
    Kelly 1999; Jangid 2002; Tsai et al. 2004). Since base- buildings (Hall et al. 1995). Several studies have
    isolated structures have large effective periods, near- focused on the performance evaluation of base-isolated
    fault ground motions containing long-period pulses are buildings under near-fault ground motions (Hall et al.
    expected to induce unacceptably large seismic demands 1995; Jangid and Kelly 2001; Jangid 2007; Providakis
    on these structures. The most desirable performance of 2008; Providakis 2009; Mazza and Vulcano 2009;
    base-isolated buildings is achieved when the Mazza and Vulcano 2012). The effects of near-fault
    †Formerly doctoral student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    *Corresponding author. Email address: wijeyewickrema.a.aa@m.titech.ac.jp; Fax: +81-3-5734-3578; Tel: +81-3-5734-2595.
    Associate Editor: S.Y. Zhu

    Advances in Structural Engineering Vol. 16 No. 12 2013 1973

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