Abstract
To improve the deficiency of the wave input method (WIM) in expressing complex incident site waves, in this paper, a random non-uniform wave input method (RNUWIM) is derived from the use of the random incident waves and the visco-elastic boundary condition. The random incident waves are generated and adjusted by the comparison of the horizontal ground motion’s response spectrum and the target spectrum, so that they are representative of the actual wavefield in project sites. Furthermore, the RNUWIM is implemented and verified by the finite element method. The result shows that the RNUWIM inherits the advantages of the WIM in simulating the wave propagation effect and the radiation damping effect. In the new method, the spatial variation of ground motions such as time delays, peak variation, and time-history shape differences can be simulated synthetically. The errors of RNUWIM in ground acceleration, velocity, and displacement at the reference point are respectively 3.23%, 0.66%, and 0.07% in one case, which proves the efficiency of the RNUWIM in seismic response analyses.
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