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  • Fast seismic performance assessment of RC frame structures with consideration of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty by utilizing PBEE toolbox and web application for prediction of IDA curves [Elektronski vir]
    Celarec, Daniel, 1981 ; Dolšek, Matjaž
    A simplified methodology for seismic performance assessment of structures withconsideration of both aleatory and epistemic uncertainty is briefly presented. The methodolo-gy involves pushover ... analysis for a set of structuralmodels and nonlinear dynamic analysis of corresponding equivalent SDOF models. However, a methodology by itself without any support of sophisticated computational software is not intended to be used for practical ap-plications. Thus, a very efficient software tool, a PBEE toolbox [1] in conjunction with Open-Sees, was used in our study in order to perform pushoveranalyses of required computational simulations, while nonlinear dynamic analysis are approximately computed by using a web application for prediction of IDA curves [2], which was recently developed within ICE4RISK project. Presented methodology and software tools are demonstrated by means ofan example of a three-storey reinforced concrete frame building. The resultsof the presented example have indicated that incorporation of the epistemic uncertainty, in addition to aleatory uncer-tainty, slightly increases dispersion and can substantially decrease the limit-state intensities. This effect increases with the severity of the limit state. It was also proved that sophisticated software tools are important ingredient of performance-based earthquake engineering and can significantly facilitate transferring knowledge into practice.
    Type of material - conference contribution ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2011
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 5523297