Rapid recovery strategy for seismic performance of seismic-damaged structures considering imperfect repair and seismic resilience

Abstract

In the emergency repair process of seismic-damaged structures, it is necessary to determine the optimal repair strategy according to damage assessment results, available repair resources and repair time. In this study, the applicable conditions of various member-level and structure-level damage indexes or models are compared. Then, considering the actual conditions of limited available repair resources and repair time in the emergency repair process, the determination method of the optimal imperfect repair strategy is established. On this basis, the determination method of the optimal repair sequence is proposed by taking seismic resilience as the evaluation index. Finally, a seismic fragility analysis method that considers uniform collapse risk and residual service life of structures is introduced, which can be used to analyze the seismic performance of seismic-damaged structures and to compare the repair effectiveness of different repair strategies. Taken a 5-story reinforced concrete structure as an example for analysis. The analysis results show the optimal imperfect repair strategy and the optimal repair sequence determined by the proposed methods can effectively improve the seismic performance of seismic-damaged structures. The fragility analysis results further confirm that the repair based on the optimal imperfect repair strategy can effectively reduce the collapse risk of seismic-damaged structures.