The Effects of Earthquake Significant Duration D595 to the Earthquake Intensity Measures and the Inelastic Response of SDOF Reinforced Concrete Structure

Abstract

The concept of seismic intensity measures has long beendiscussed and has been collected by researchers among whom are by [1-6]. However, the effect of earthquake duration on the structural response hasnot received attention from the researcher so it has not been seen in the listof the existing seismic intensity measures. In the spectral response, forexample, it has been accommodated peak value and earthquake frequencycontent but has not accommodated the duration of the earthquake. Theeffect of earthquake duration on a response, damage or collapse capacity ofthe structure has been done by the researchers [7-10]. The spectrallyequivalent approach/control has been used by [9,10]., while the collapsecapacity approach is cursed by [8]. The use of the classification of theearthquake frequency content as independent variables has been suggestedby [7]. In this study, the classification of earthquake frequency (lowfrequency), earthquake duration as the independent variable and peakacceleration control have been used. Single degree of Freedom (SDOF)structures excited by 15-earthquakes with effective durations varyingbetween te = 6.34 to 30.18 s have been used. The results showed that notall seismic intensity measure used had a strong relationship with effectiveduration. The earthquake effective duration has a positive relationship withthe damage index but the relationship is relatively weak