The effect of different intensity measures and earthquake directions on the seismic assessment of skewed highway bridges

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• 作者：M. Bayat ; F. Daneshjoo ; N. Nisticò
• 关键词：skewed highway bridge ; earthquake direction ; spectral intensity measure ; analytical fragility curve
• 刊名：Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 页码：165-179
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Civil Engineering; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control;
• 出版者：Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration
• ISSN：1993-503X
• 卷排序：16

文摘

In this study the probable seismic behavior of skewed bridges with continuous decks under earthquake excitations from different directions is investigated. A 45° skewed bridge is studied. A suite of 20 records is used to perform an Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) for fragility curves. Four different earthquake directions have been considered: -45°, 0°, 22.5°, 45°. A sensitivity analysis on different spectral intensity meas ures is presented; efficiency and practicality of different intensity measures have been studied. The fragility curves obtained indicate that the critical direction for skewed bridges is the skew direction as well as the longitudinal direction. The study shows the importance of finding the most critical earthquake in understanding and predicting the behavior of skewed bridges.