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Pounding of buildings in series during earthquakes
Author(s) -
Anagnostopoulos Stavros A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
earthquake engineering and structural dynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.218
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1096-9845
pISSN - 0098-8847
DOI - 10.1002/eqe.4290160311
Subject(s) - series (stratigraphy) , parametric statistics , geology , structural engineering , block (permutation group theory) , engineering , seismology , geometry , mathematics , statistics , paleontology
A simplified model of several adjacent buildings in a block is used to study the pounding of such buildings due to strong earthquakes. Considerable structural damage and even some collapses have sometimes been attributed to this effect. Each structure is modelled as a S.D.O.F. system and pounding is simulated using impact elements. A parametric investigation of this problem shows that the end structures experience almost always substantial increases in their response while for ‘interior’ structures the opposite often happens. This may explain why high percentages of corner buildings have collapsed in some earthquakes.