7 .4 .

2 M eth o ds of S eis m ic A nalys is

IR C 6 covers the seism ic resistant design, including

defining design ea hquake,m ethods of analysis and the
Ioad com binations. S pecialised m ethods are used for
calculating the response of bridges in seism ic situation.

l .4 .3 E va lu atin g G lo b a l a n d Lo cal E ffe cts

7,4.3,1 G lobal nalysis
T his m ethod is used fo r the overalla na lysis of
the bridge structure . It consists of dete rm in ing , in
a structure ,a co nsiste nt set of e ithe r inte rnal
fo rces a nd m om e nts o r stresses that a re in
equilibrium w ith a particular defined set oF
actio ns o n the structure .T he internalset of
Fo rces depends on geo m etrica l,structura la nd
m ate rial pro pe rtie s.

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E va luating G lo ba land Lo ca lE ects .....

..... co ntin ued

T his principle allow s considering equilibrium of a sm all

part of the structure.C onsidering the equilibrium of a
free body containing the disturbance,but having its
bo unda ries sumicie ntly aw ay at locatio ns w he re the

originalstress distribution is as given by the global

analysis. In hand analysis this distance is taken as the
depth of the elem ent.unusable.
T.4.3.3 C om bined globaland localanafysis
In globalFE M analysis the localdisturbances can be
included as a part of globalgeom etry w ith refined finite
elem ent m esh surrounding the dIsturbance to yIeld
distribution of rapidly changing localstresses as a part of
globalanalysis.

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