Probabilistic Seismic Demand Analysis of a RC Building Under Model Uncertainties

Acknowledgements

Abstract

摘要

Table of Contents

List of Figures

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1 Introduction

1．1 Basics of earthquake engineering

1．2 Objectives of the project

2 Seismi c design of a RC building

2．1 Introduction

2．2 A brief overview of ETABS

2．3 Case study

2．4 Results

2．4．1 Column reinforcement design

2．4．2 Beam reinforcement design

2．4．3 Building code verification

2．5 Brief summary

3 Nonlinear modelling of the case study

3．1 Introduction

3．2 The OpenSees model

3．3 Results

3．4 Brief summary

4 Probabilistic seismic demand analysis

4．1 Introduction

4．2 The selection of ground motion input

4．3 The Cloud Analysis method

4．4 Fragility curve estimation

4．5 Results

4．6 Brief summary

5 Probabilistic seismic demand analysis under model uncertainties

5．1 Introduction

5．2 Uncertainties in the material properties

5．3 Uncertainty characterisation using Monte Carlo sampling

5．4 Surrogate modelling for efficient sampling

5．5 Resu lts for the case study

5．5．1 The cloud analysis under material uncertainties

5．5．2 Determination of fragility under uncertainty

5．6 Brief summary

6 Conclusion

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