Open AccessUse of yield ratio response spectra to design yielding members for improving earthquake resistance of brittle structure
Author(s) -
Rachel Gilmour,
H. C. Hitchcock
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
bulletin of the new zealand society for earthquake engineering/nzsee quarterly bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.917
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 2324-1543
pISSN - 1174-9857
DOI - 10.5459/bnzsee.4.2.285-293
Subject(s) - brittleness , yield (engineering) , spectral line , margin (machine learning) , seismology , structural engineering , geology , materials science , engineering , physics , computer science , composite material , astronomy , machine learning
This paper describes the design of yielding members to be added to the porcelain columns which support 80 ton smoothing reactors of the N.Z. Electricity Department's High Voltage
Direct Current transmission system, in order to improve their earthquake resistance.
It shows how the extent of the yield was estimated from the response spectra given by P.C. Jennings in "Earthquake Response of a Yielding Structure" and how the margin against collapse was estimated from Jennings and Husid's "Collapse of Yielding Structures during Earthquakes".