Objective
Structural damage and life losses due to recent earthquakes show that design procedures in current codes throughout the world need to be improved to adequately consider the non-linear behaviour of the structures and control their performance when subjected to demands which may occur during their design life. This proposal addresses the problem of defining a consistent performance based seismic design methodology and developing design methods which guarantee that, under design actions, the structures perform as expected.
The project involves: Definition and validation of seismic design and performance levels applicable to structures in Mexico and the EU using field and experimental damage data and probability concepts. Validation of a recently proposed design method based on concepts of structural performance evaluation, an approximate non-linear procedure for the determination of seismic performance, and advanced concepts on dynamics and probability. Improvement and modification of this method to consider the design of asymmetric buildings and irregular bridges subjected to bidirectional earthquake action. Development of uniform hazard design spectra using a probabilistic formulation based on rates of exceedence of the performance indices. The procedure to obtain these spectra will consider all known uncertainties on the parameters of the seismic sources, their annual rate of exceedence of magnitudes and the characteristics of the structures.
To calculate the probability that a structure exceeds a given performance level, the Monte Carlo method will be used with the responses of equivalent single degree of freedom systems subjected to a large number of records of different magnitudes simulated for particular earthquake generation processes and methods such as the empirical Green ' s function. Once the method is developed, and only after an extensive validation programme, discussions and presentations will start with EC8 committees for future code implementations.
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- engineering and technology civil engineering structural engineering earthquake engineering seismic loading
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences geology seismology
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FP6-2002-MOBILITY-7
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IIF - Marie Curie actions-Incoming International Fellowships
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BRUSSELS
Belgium
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