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Document:
SP-339_08
Date:
March 1, 2020
Author(s):
Kevin Aswegan and Ian McFarlane
Publication:
Symposium Papers
Volume:
339
Abstract:
The use of a Performance-Based Seismic Design (PBSD) approach to design buildings whose heights exceed 240 ft (73 m) has become common in many West Coast cities. This paper studies trends across 14 special reinforced concrete shear wall PBSD towers designed within the last 5 years. The primary purpose of evaluating these trends is to compare demands calculated using a linear elastic design approach (i.e. for Design Earthquake or Service Level shaking) to the demands (average results from 7 or 11 ground motions) determined through nonlinear analysis (i.e. for Maximum Considered Earthquake shaking). The specific demands evaluated include core wall shears and foundation overturning moments. The paper also demonstrates that shear and moment amplification are significant phenomena for concrete buildings, and are believed to be primarily due to nonlinear behavior, material over-strength, higher mode effects, and damping and stiffness assumptions. The results present a useful range of trends to provide an engineer guidance on the expected demands and the level of variability between projects. The paper highlights some of the reasons for the variability in these trends, and provides general proportioning recommendations.
DOI:
10.14359/51724699
SP-339_12
Burkhart Trost, Harald Schuler, and Bozidar Stojadinovic
Sliding failure of reinforced concrete shear walls was observed after the Chilean earthquakes in 1985 and 2010, during shaking table tests, and in many quasi-static cyclic shear walls tests. Sliding may occur along cold joints or flexural cracks that remain open due to permanent deformations induced during cyclic loading. If it occurs, sliding can significantly reduce the horizontal force resistance and change the deformation mechanism of reinforced concrete shear walls, and thereby markedly affect the seismic performance of shear wall buildings. This study provides the interaction diagrams intended to help reinforced concrete shear wall designers exclude the sliding failure mode. Regions where sliding, shear, and flexural failure modes are expected are delineated according to the shear wall shear span to length ratio, the axial force, the horizontal and vertical reinforcement ratios, and the concrete strength. These interaction diagrams are derived using a cyclic reinforced concrete wall response model that considers flexure, shear and sliding load-deformation relationships and the interaction between them. The inter-action diagram is used to develop design recommendations on how to avoid the sliding failure of reinforced concrete shear walls under earthquake loading.
10.14359/51724703
SP339
Jeff Dragovich, Mary Beth Hueste, Brian Kehoe, and Insung Kim
Performance-Based Seismic Design (PBSD) of reinforced concrete buildings has rapidly become a widely used alternative to the prescriptive requirements of building code requirements for seismic design. The use of PBSD for new construction is expanding, as evidenced by the design guidelines that are available and the stock of building projects completed using this approach. In support of this, the mission of ACI Committee 374, Performance-Based Seismic Design of Concrete Buildings, is to “Develop and report information on performance-based seismic analysis and design of concrete buildings.” During the ACI Concrete Convention, October 15-19, 2017, in Anaheim, CA, Committee 374 sponsored three technical sessions titled “Performance-Based Seismic Design of Concrete Buildings: State of the Practice.” The sessions presented the state of practice for the PBSD of reinforced concrete buildings. These presentations brought together the implementation of PBSD through state-of-the-art project examples, analysis observations, design guidelines, and research that supports PBSD. This special publication reflects the presentations in Anaheim. Consistent with the presentation order at the special sessions in Anaheim, the papers in this special publication are ordered in four broad categories: state-of-the-art project examples (papers 1-5), lateral system demands (papers 6-8), design guidelines (papers 9-10), and research and observed behavior (papers 11-13). On behalf of Committee 374, we wish to thank each of the authors for sharing their experience and expertise with the session attendees and for their contributions to this special publication.
10.14359/51725817
SP-339_13
Giulio Leon Flores, Reza V. Farahani, Hussien Abdel Baky, and Paul C. Rizzo
This paper presents the structural testing of four full-scale reinforced concrete beam-column connections, extracted from reinforced concrete buildings that suffered minor damage from the Canterbury Earthquakes in New Zealand. Two connections are extracted from a moment frame comprising the secondary seismic-resisting system of a concrete building; two are extracted from moment frames of the primary seismic-resisting systems of a precast concrete building. The seismic performance of the connections is evaluated from the test results and compared to recommendations in ASCE 41 (2013) for the evaluation of existing buildings. Due to the size of the specimens, the tests were stopped when the actuator reached its maximum stroke, at interstory drifts between 2.5% and 3. The cast-in-place connections showed moderate damage after the tests, at ductility levels above 2.9, and their initial lateral stiffness was approximately 80% of the lateral stiffness of numerical models representing the undamaged state. The precast connections exhibited extensive damage along the construction joint between the precast beams and the cast-in-place beam-column joint, at ductility levels above 3.4. The plastic mechanism was governed by sliding shear of the precast beams, which caused severe stiffness deterioration at the end of the tests. The measured stiffness in this case was approximately half of the stiffness predicted by numerical models in which nonlinearity is considered in the form of flexural plastic hinges only. This unexpected behavior is attributed to the low quantity of reinforcing steel crossing the construction joint, and presumably earthquake damage.
10.14359/51724704
SP-339_11
Laura N. Lowes, Dawn E. Lehman, and Carson Baker
The PERFORM-3D software package is used commonly in engineering practice to conduct nonlinear dynamic analyses of reinforced concrete walled buildings to their seismic response. However, few studies have evaluated or improved on common modeling approaches for structural concrete walls. The research presented here was conducted to establish best practices for modeling the full nonlinear response of walls exhibiting common flexural failure modes. First, an experimental data set consisting of eight planar concrete walls was collected; these walls were spanned a range of length-to-thickness ratios, shear stress demands, axial load ratios, and longitudinal reinforcement configurations. For each wall specimen, a reference numerical model was created using typical modeling methods as proposed by Powell. Comparison of simulated and measured cyclic response histories show that typical modeling techniques result in relatively inaccurate simulation of cyclic response and very inaccurate simulation of drift capacity. To improve the model accuracy, experimental data were used to determine appropriate values for the steel and concrete material model cyclic response parameters. Experimental data and mathematical definitions for the concrete compressive energy were used to develop recommendations for defining concrete post-peak stress-strain response to achieve accurate, mesh-independent simulation of drift capacity. Finally, recommendations for the minimum number of elements were examined. Comparison of simulated and measured cyclic response histories show that the new modeling recommendation result in accurate, mesh independent simulation of cyclic response, including drift capacity. Future work will evaluate the proposed modeling approach for asymmetric and flanged walls.
10.14359/51724702
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