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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 43
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper VII.2

Influence of Earthquake Characteristics to Nonlinear Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Structures

A. Elenas, A. Liolios and L. Vasiliadis

Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus-University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Elenas, A. Liolios, L. Vasiliadis, "Influence of Earthquake Characteristics to Nonlinear Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Structures", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Computational Techniques for Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 133-137, 1996. doi:10.4203/ccp.43.7.2
Abstract
This paper describes in the first part some strong motion acceleration parameters in the time and in the frequency domain. Furthermore, a classification of the ground motions at a site according to their damage potential is presented. The second part deals with a nonlinear analysis of a six storey reinforced concrete plane frame and the influence of the afforementioned acceleration parameters on the behaviour of the structure. Damage indicators in the form of cross sectional ductility demand are evaluated and correlated with the strong motion characteristics. Furthermore, the ductility demand is compared with the cross sectional ductility supply of the frame structure. The aim is to extract among the several here presented seismic parameters, those which have drastic affection on the damage indicators of the structures. The attention is focused on earthquake acceleration time histories recorded in Greece.

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