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Efficient structural seismic performance evaluation method using improved endurance time analysis

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Evaluation of structural performance under seismic excitations from low intensity to high intensity is essential to verify the seismic resistant capacity of a structure, and usually carried out by the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) method or pushover method. The recently developed endurance time (ET) method is another method that uses dynamic pushover excitations, i.e., endurance time acceleration function, to obtain results similar to those obtained by IDA or pushover methods with low computational cost and acceptable accuracy. This study proposes an improvement on the ET method by considering more restrictions for both the elastic and inelastic response spectra in the generation procedure, and by specifying a target duration. Four reinforced concrete frame structures with 4, 8, 12, and 16 stories are adopted to verify the accuracy of the improved method. Comparison of the results obtained by the proposed method, the ET method and the IDA method shows that the improved method has a higher accuracy than the ET method. For evaluation of structural responses under specific ground motion intensity, which is typically required in seismic design codes, the results obtained by the proposed method are compared with five commonly used ground motion selection methods, and shows the proposed method provides acceptable accuracy for engineering applications.

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This research project was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2016YFC0701500) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51578202). This financial support is greatly appreciated by the authors.

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  1. Key Lab of Structures Dynamic Behavior and Control of the Ministry of Education, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China

    Shuang Li, Xiangyang Liu, Changhai Zhai & Fengwei Xie

  2. Key Lab of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China

    Shuang Li, Kun Liu, Xiangyang Liu, Changhai Zhai & Fengwei Xie

  3. School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China

    Shuang Li

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Supported by: National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No. 2016YFC0701500 and National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51578202

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Li, S., Liu, K., Liu, X. et al. Efficient structural seismic performance evaluation method using improved endurance time analysis. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 18, 795–809 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-019-0485-x

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