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CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 48

Probabilistic Seismic Response Sensitivity of Nonlinear Frame Bending-Shear and Infill Model Parameters for an Existing Infilled Reinforced Concrete Structure

A.F. Mohammad1, M. Faggella1, R. Gigliotti1 and E. Spacone2

1Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2Department of Engineering and Geology, Faculty of Engineering, University "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A.F. Mohammad, M. Faggella, R. Gigliotti, E. Spacone, "Probabilistic Seismic Response Sensitivity of Nonlinear Frame Bending-Shear and Infill Model Parameters for an Existing Infilled Reinforced Concrete Structure", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 48, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.48
Keywords: performance-based earthquake assessment, existing buildings, reinforced concrete, infill-frame interaction, shear failure, modelling uncertainty, probabilistic sensitivity, tornado diagrams..

Summary
The seismic performance of older infilled frame reinforced concrete structures is influenced by the interaction of different components and mechanisms and is highly sensitive to several modelling parameters. A probabilistic response sensitivity analysis is performed on a case study consisting of an infilled frame structure incorporating state-of the art models of most significant sources of nonlinear behaviour: 1) axial-moment interaction in the frame components, 2) cracking and crushing of infill panels, and 3) infill-frame interaction induced shear failure of columns. Nonlinear fiber section beam column elements are assembled with eccentric ASCE41/FEMA356 infill strut models, hysteretic shear models of captive columns based on EC8 shear strength, and are processed through pushover-based tornado analyses. Probabilistic sensitivity to material parameters at operation, damage, life safety and collapse limit states indicates that modelling parameters of infill and mass source have a key impact on the system response.

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