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Shear seismic response analysis is critical for seismic design of immersed tunnels. According to the structural characters of immersed tunnels and shear dynamic response of their joints, a multibody dynamic model consisting of multi-rigid body, shear hinge, and viscous damping hinge is proposed for shear response analysis, in which the dynamic stiffness of the shear hinge is divided into two stages based on a threshold. Following the discrete time transfer matrix method for multibody system dynamics (MS-DT-TMM), the mechanical model and mathematical expression of each tunnel element is derived first and then assembled for the whole tunnel system. A solution procedure is proposed to solve the shear dynamic response of immersed tunnels using the proposed multibody system model. It is shown that the MS-DT-TMM has the same computational accuracy as the finite element method (FEM) and the modeling process is more efficient and flexible when compared to FEM. Although the MS-DT-TMM discussed herein is only applied to shear response analysis, it can easily be extended to analyze axial force and bending moment of immersed tunnels leading to a complete, rapid yet accurate enough seismic analysis of immersed tunnels suitable for engineering practices.

Multibody System Discrete Time Transfer Matrix Method for Nonlinear Shear Dynamic analysis of Immersed Tunnels