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ABSTRACT

This paper presents a numerical procedure which is called the Vector form intrinsic finite element method. It is used to analyze the nonlinear behavior of structural collapse under seismic excitation.  Nonlinear  dynamic analysis was  performed due  to the large  amount of  literature  supporting it  as the  superior method  of analysis  as  compared to nonlinear  static  analysis .  The accuracy  of  the  multistory  frame  model  was  also  confirmed through comparison of  its response under  blast loading with  that of  an existing study in  the literature, and the results were in good agreement . The whole progressive collapse processes   of the framed structures in various conditions are also simulated. The numerical procedures in Vector form intrinsic finite element method provided for new concept to deal a large deformation and rotation from continuous state to discontinuous state. The geometry nonlinear and nonlinear materials have been considered. The damage indexes of the element are adopted to decide failure criteria of element joints. In order to simulate the progressive collapse behavior of the structures, the compression between of the numerical simulation Vector form intrinsic finite element method and shake table experiments demonstrate the accuracy of the Vector form intrinsic finite element  method.

The information presents applications of proposed collapse methodology to the development of collapse fragility curves and the evaluation of the mean annual frequency of collapse. The previous of the problems; we can analyze and short out of the problems related to the collapse. Because, mainly part of the collapse.  

KEYWORDS

 Vector form intrinsic finite element method, Progressive collapse, Damage index,  Collapse analysis, Discontinuous displacement, Collision/Impact, Geometric nonlinearity.

 

 

 

1. INTRODUCTION

         To prevent the immeasurable losses of human lives and social properties due to earthquakes and terrorist attacks, resistance evaluation and retrofitting of civil infrastructures have become an important issue of many countries in the world. Great attention has been focused on a type of failure known as “progressive collapse” since the Ronan Point apartment collapse in London in 1986 (Griffiths et al., 1986). In recent years, however, terrorist attacks have also become evident as seen in the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 and the World Trade Center in New York, 2001 which did not withstand the fires from terrorist attacks that have eventually induced progressive collapse of the building. The 27 May 2006 earthquake has hit the provinces of Yogyakarta and Central Java in Indonesia which lead to RC and brick building’s collapse. Besides experimental and theoretical studies, numerical simulation is another way to assist engineers to understand the nonlinear dynamic failure behavior of structure under an earthquake excitation. Recently, the V-fife method has been proposed by Ting, et al. (2004a, 2004b) and Wang and Ting (2004). This method applies a unique approach to compute the effects of rigid motion, allowing the simulation of extremely large deformation of elastic motion structures. The V-fife method will be explained in greater detail later in this paper. It redefines a set of deformation coordinates on the element in each time step. Therefore, it removes each element’s rigid body rotations and displacements. The V-fife method adopts a convicted material frame and the explicit time integration method for solving the equations of motion. This method has been successfully applied to the nonlinear motion analysis of the 2D elastic frame (Wu et al., 2006), the dynamic stability analysis of the space truss structure (Wang et al., 2006), and the elastic-plastic analysis of a space truss structure (Wang et al. 2005). The key objective of this study is to construct the V-fife method for the analysis of RC frame subjected to extremely large deformation having inelastic material properties. In this paper, analysis of collapse structures included multiple frame elements motion for large deformation and rotation from continuous states to discontinuous state. The comparison between numerical simulation of V-5 method and shake table experiments demonstrates the accuracy of V-5 method. Based on the survey around the heavily damaged area, three key problems in collapse analysis of structures were identified as description of discontinuous displacements, collision/impact between structural elements and adjacent buildings, and geometric nonlinearity of structures.  Some research work trying to solve the solutions is also introduced.

 2. VECTOR FORM INTRINSIC FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

            In this study, the V-5 method is extended in order to analyze elastic-plastic systems containing multiple deformable bodies with the following characteristics:

 (1) Interact with each other.

 (2) Discontinuous.

 (3) undergo large deformations and arbitrary rigid body motions.

                 Since the conventional finite element method (FEM) is an energy-based method, it does not require the balance of forces within each element. Since these unbalanced residual forces will do some work under virtual rigid body motion it will cause inaccuracy and un-convergence of the computed results. In order to solve these problems, the V-5 method has been proposed.

There are vector form intrinsic finite element method includes four main procedures:

(1) Construct the equation of motion using Newton’s Law at the mass points.

 (2) Update the material frame.

 (3) Compute the fictitious reversed rotations.

 (4) Determine the deformation coordinates.

            These aforementioned computation procedures have some points in common with the concept of the modern FEM. However, the key concept of the V-5 is that V-5 maintains the intrinsic nature of the original FEM. The V-5 method makes use of the strong form of equilibrium at each element. All the forces are balanced within each element. These forces are obtained from the principle of virtual work. The associated nodal displacements satisfy the compatibility condition.

3. FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS MODELING OF CONCRETE FRAMES

           Finite element analysis software program was used to model a three-story reinforced Concrete frame building. To simulate blast loading condition, a time history air pressure wave was applied to the frame. Nonlinear dynamic time history response of the frame model was validated with that of an existing study in the literature (Jayashree et al. 2013) and they were in good agreement.

3.1 GEOMETRY AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF THE FRAME STRUCTURES

             The simulated frame consisted of two bays in A  one  bay in B, and three story elevations in C Directions of the global coordinate system.   All bays  were equally spaced  at 8 m in  x and  y directions.  The floor to floor height of each story was equal to 3 m .  Base rectangular model with x y and z coordinates b) plan view of rectangle c) plan view of the square model d) plan view of the L-shaped.

The beams were assumed to be 45 x 25 cm reinforced concrete sections. All story columns were 300*300 mm  RC sections with eight longitudinal bars (29 mm).  The hoop reinforcement bars Were  assumed to be 12 mm with 15 cm longitudinal spacing and concrete cover of 40mm.                   The floors diaphragm were treated  as thin  shell sections  with  two layers  of the  reinforcement.  The thickness of the slab was 100mm with 1 mm of concrete cover. The concrete compressive strength and modulus of elasticity were 25 MPa and 23,158 MPa, respectively. The bars were made of grade  60,  with  the  yield  strength  of  414  MPa  and   modulus  of  elasticity  of  2x10^5  MPa, respectively.

3.2. LOADING AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

            Consideration of the structures joints, moment connections while all columns of  the ground were modeled as fixed supports.  Additionally, the end length offset option in SAP2000 was used to connect the beams and columns properly. All floor systems were assumed to work as diaphragms.

 

3.3. ANALYSIS PROCEDURE

         The blast load was applied to the validated reinforced concrete frame by performing nonlinear time history analysis.  P-M2-M3 and M3 plastic hinges were applied to both ends of columns and  both ends of the beams, respectively. P-M2-M3 plastic hinges have a moment rotation curve which is used to describe a combination of axial and bending behavior of column elements (SAP2000 2014). ‘Automatic plastic hinges’ option in SAP2000 software program was used for this purpose. All plastic hinge definitions are based on tables 6-7 and 6-8 of FEMA 356 (FEMA 2000. A 5 percent constant damping ratio was assumed. The analysis was performed for 2 seconds with 250.

3.4. NON-LINEAR SOLUTION AND FAILURE CRITERION

           Iteration method was used to predict the required load value to form the first plastic hinges as they exceeded the collapse prevention condition.  Based on the GSA, for the nonlinear dynamic analysis, the moment and rotation values should not exceed the collapse prevention condition. The magnitude of blast load was changed by increasing or decreasing the load scale-factor. Based on the choice of referring co-ordinates, methods regarding geometric formulation of deformable bodies may be categorized there are two types: Lagrangian Formulation and Eulerian Formulation. In 1979 Argyris and Doltsinis employed the current unstressed configuration to deal with large deformation and inelastic problems, where are iteration needed since the current configuration remains unknown. In structural analysis the geometric nonlinearity related with large deformation are usually avoided by assuming concentrated plasticity of materials. Thus a general only large displacement/large rotation with small deformation are considered in structural analysis.

3.4.1 LARGE DESPLACEMENT ROTATION

          The consideration of the geometric non-linearity frame structure P and Delta effects of the structures. The introducing a geometric stiffness matrix, the coupling between bending moment and axial force can be taken into account in terms of the effective stiffness. These methods, however, can be not suitable for collapse analysis of framed structures. For example, the variation of axial forces cannot be considered appropriately in dynamic analysis.

3.4.2 FAILURES DUE TO THE BUCKLING

      The well-known three-hinged buckling problem can also be solved using the current unstressed configuration. Referring to the current unstressed configuration might be a good choice considering buckling failure in a consistent manner with other geometric nonlinearity.

4. DISCONTINUOUS DISPLACEMENT

         An intact structure under extreme conditions usually will subject to various failures such as cracking, yielding and even fracture. As far as the distribution of displacement and deformation is concerned, it may be termed as having discontinuous displacement. A typical example is the failure of a beam-column member in the formation of a plastic hinge – the slope along the member has some discontinuities, which has been widely studied over the past decades.

 

4.1 DISCONTINUOUS DISPLACEMENT IN BEAM-COLUMN MEMBERS

         These displacement discontinuities are most common in damage investigation as shown in Fig.1 and Fig.2, where some failures with discontinuities in slope (for example, Fig.1) can be successfully described by plastic hinge model. There are plenty of literatures on using plastic hinges in collapse analysis and seismic assessment such as

 

                                   Fig-1                                                                             fig-2

 

4.2 DISCONTINUOUS DISPLACEMENT OF SLAB/WALL ELEMENTS

 

         It is well known that most of the casualties are caused by collapses in strong earthquakes. In fact it might more appropriate to say that most of the casualties resulted from collapse of floor slabs and walls. Such, show as figures.

 

 

Unfortunately such kind of behavior of slab/wall under extreme conditions cannot be simulated appropriately using available models. The application of DEM and its extended form is also prohibited by similar problems in dealing with beam-column members as described in Section 2. In current design codes, the roles that slab/wall plays in the whole structural system carrying external loads is usually simplified in modeling. 

In the multi-storey frame structure buildings are damages from earthquake generally initiates at position of structural weaknesses. The openings present in slabs are often providing discontinuities in distribution of loads. But when these openings are provided at suitable position the of structure to damage can be avoided. Structural engineers have developed confidence in the design of buildings. In the present work openings are enclosed by shear walls at placed different positions.

5. DESIGNING CONCEPT OF FRAME STRUCTURES

There are works process of the designing of the structures. Because first of all the designing 

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RESEARCH SAMPLE PAPERS

  ABSTRACT This paper presents a numerical procedure which is called the Vector form intrinsic finite element method. It is used to analyz...