Abstract
Member failure due to low cycle fatigue may occur for steel structures under strong earthquakes. In this paper, the seismic response of single-layer latticed domes composed of welded round pipes is analyzed by the software Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (OpenSees) incorporating low cyclic fatigue, in which the equations of initial camber for members are obtained from the buckling coefficient curve of compression members in Chinese codes. Single-layer latticed domes composed of welded round pipes with different parameters are modeled, and the seismic responses of the domes with and without material fatigue are compared by the incremental dynamic analysis. The results show that under strong earthquakes, the seismic responses including the maximum displacements and plastic development of the domes with fatigue are larger than those of the domes without fatigue. The collapsed PGAs decrease by 10–25% if low cycle fatigue is incorporated. Therefore, the low cycle fatigue of material should be taken into account in the seismic analyses of single-layer latticed domes under strong earthquakes.
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