Site-Specific Seismic Design of Buildings
A special issue of CivilEng (ISSN 2673-4109).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 19280
Special Issue Editors
Interests: earthquake engineering; impact engineering
Interests: earthquake engineering in low to moderate seismic regions; mitigation of existing building stock to counter risks of earthquake related damage; cross-laminated timber; durability issues in structures
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In major codes of practice for seismic design, the code stipulated response spectrum model typically gives coverage for a combination of earthquake scenarios in one model. Conservatism is unavoidable. Many codes of practices also contain provisions for an alternative, and much less conservative, design approach which is to design to specific conditions of the building site and projected earthquake scenarios (referred herein as site-specific seismic design).
The site-specific seismic design option has considerable economic incentives, but there is little industry uptake to date mainly because of lack of knowledge amongst building designers on how to operate the procedure, and lack of resources to provide support. There is little coverage in the literature on this topic to address the needs of building designers who operate in regions of low-to-moderate seismicity.
Accelerograms can be scaled according to the site-specific response spectrum model for use in advanced dynamic analyses for obtaining direct predictions of the seismic performance of a building structure. Details of ground shaking in every earthquake are different, and not be repeated in a future event. The behaviour of a structure can be very sensitive to those details. Thus, results from a few isolated dynamic analyses can be misleading. To track the behavioral trends, the same structure need be subject to analyses in a repetitive manner by employing a large number of accelerograms. Resources to address this requirement is also lacking.
This special issue is aimed at filling in the knowledge gaps to facilitate common adoption of site-specific seismic design in regions of low-to-moderate seismicity. Presenting the issue to an open forum would be very beneficial.
Prof. Dr. Nelson Lam
Dr. Elisa Lumantarna
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- site-specific seismic design
- site-specific response spectrum
- low-to-moderate seismic regions
- building structures
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
The special issue contains articles as outlined in the following to cover different stages of the seismic design and different types of structures:
1) Title: Site-specific response spectra and accelerograms on bedrock and soil surface
Authors: Hu, Yiwei; Lam, Nelson; Khatiwada, Prashidha; Lumantarna, Elisa; Tsang, Hing Ho and Menegon, Scott.
2) Title: Site specific response spectra and accelerograms as derived from processing and analysis of multiple borelog records taken from the same site
Authors: Hu, Yiwei; Lam, Nelson; Khatiwada, Prashidha; Lumantarna, Elisa; Tsang, Hing Ho and Menegon, Scott.
3) Title: Dynamic modal analyses of building structures employing site specific response spectra versus code response spectrum models
Authors: Khatiwada, Prashidha; Hu, Yiwei; Lam, Nelson; Lumantarna, Elisa; Menegon, Scott.
4) Title: Incremental Dynamic Analyses utilizing macro-models of reinforced concrete building structures and site specific accelerograms
Authors: Khatiwada, Prashidha; Hu, Yiwei; Lam, Nelson; Lumantarna, Elisa; Menegon, Scott.
5) Title: Assessment of torsional amplification of drift demand in buildings employing site specific response spectra and accelerograms
Authors: Hu, Yao; Khatiwada, Prashidha; Lumantarna, Elisa; Lam, Nelson; Tsang, Hing Ho
6) Title: Seismic analysis of a reinforced concrete building with a limited ductile eccentric core wall: A case study
Authors: Hoult, Ryan; Almeida, João; Correia, António
7) Title: Site-specific seismic analysis and design of buildings with a transfer structure
Authors: Looi, Daniel, Mehair Yacoubian
8) Title: Influence of site-specific soil conditions on the selection of ground motion intensity measures for constructing fragility curves for unreinforced masonry components
Authors: Vaculik, Jaroslav; Griffith, Michael
9) Title: Site specific seismic design of modular buildings
Authors: Li, Sheng; ; Lam, Nelson and Tsang, Hing Ho
10) Title: Site specific seismic design of buildings supported by precast concrete walls
Authors: Xiangzhe Weng, Lumantarna, Elisa; Hoult, Ryan; Lam, Nelson