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Interazione DINAMICA
terreno-stru3ura
(DSSI): case history 3

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A LiDAR-aided urban-scale assessment of soil-structure interacCon

effects: the case of Kalochori residenCal area (N. Greece)
Rovithis et al., 2017

General overview of the Kalochori urban area under inves5ga5on

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Buildings shape’s polygons superimposed on the produced orthoimage (top le=) and the
nDSM (top right); the descrip5ve height informa5on of the polygons (boCom le=) and
the corresponding buildings colored by the polygon height (boCom right)
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← Percentage of building recordings in

each subzone, categorized to different
height ranges (in parentheses the ID of
the building blocks in each subzone)

Distribu5on of building height in a city →

block (No. 29) selected for in situ
inspec5on compared to the mean
height distribu5on curve of all building
blocks in subzone 1

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Spa5al distribu5on of number of storeys for each building in the

residen5al area of Kalochori
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Spa5al distribu5on of number of storeys within each city block in the

residen5al area of Kalochori
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a) Shear wave velocity (Vs) profile derived in the residen5al area of Kalochori.
b Profiles of low strain (Go) and mean shear modulus (G) of soil computed
from soil response analysis under the prescribed seismic scenarios SC1 (PGAr
= 0.10 g), SC2 (PGAr = 0.15 g) and SC3 (PGAr = 0.20 g)
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Fixed-base natural period →

where H is the total height of the building, measured in meters, and Ct is equal to
0.085 for moment resistant steel frames, 0.075 for moment resistant space concrete
frames and eccentrically braced steel frames and 0.05 for all other types of structures.
It is noted that the equa5on is proposed in EC8 for both the design of new structures
(CEN 2003) and the seismic assessment of exis5ng buildings (CEN 2004) with height up
to 40 m

Flexible-base effecCve period →

where Tfixed and kstr refer to the fundamental period and the horizontal s5ffness of
the fixed-base structure, heff is the effec5ve height of the structure taken as 0.7H
(except for single-storey buildings where heff = H), while kh and kr stand for the
transla5onal and rocking s5ffness of the founda5on, respec5vely
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FEMA P-750 (BSSC 2009) suggests that the transla5onal (kh) and rocking (kr) s5ffness of the
founda5on may be computed from the following expressions:

allowing treatment of the founda5on s5ffness in a homogenized manner by an equivalent

rectangular surface founda5on.
In the above expressions ra = (Ao/π)0.5 and rm = [√(4Io/ π)]0.5 refer to an equivalent radius of
the whole founda5on area of the structure in transla5onal and rocking mo5on, Ao and Io
stand for the area and the moment of iner5a of the founda5on, respec5vely, ν is the
Poisson ra5o of the soil and aθ is a dimensionless factor related to the frequency content
of the input mo5on, fixed here equal to 1.

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Schema5c explana5on of the period elonga5on effect due to SSI on the seismic force imposed on a structure
depending on the seismic input and soil condi5ons: a) Beneficial effect of SSI reflected in Sa(Tssi)/Sa(Tfixed) ra5o
below unity. b) Detrimental effect of SSI reflected in Sa(Tssi)/Sa(Tfixed) ra5o above unity

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Spa5al distribu5on of Tssi/Tfixed ra5os computed in the residen5al area of

Kalochori for the seismic scenario SC1 (PGAr = 0.10 g, Tm = 1000 years)
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Spa5al distribu5on of Tssi/Tfixed ra5os computed in the residen5al area of

Kalochori for the seismic scenario SC2 (PGAr = 0.15 g, Tm = 1000 years)
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Spa5al distribu5on of Tssi/Tfixed ra5os computed in the residen5al area of

Kalochori for the seismic scenario SC3 (PGAr = 0.20 g, Tm = 1000 years)
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Spa5al distribu5on of Sa(Tssi)/Sa(Tfixed) ra5os computed in the residen5al area of

Kalochori for the seismic scenario SC1 (PGAr = 0.10 g, Tm = 1000 years)
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Spa5al distribu5on of Sa(Tssi)/Sa(Tfixed) ra5os computed in the residen5al area of

Kalochori for the seismic scenario SC2 (PGAr = 0.15 g, Tm = 1000 years)
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Spa5al distribu5on of Sa(Tssi)/Sa(Tfixed) ra5os computed in the residen5al area of

Kalochori for the seismic scenario SC3 (PGAr = 0.20 g, Tm = 1000 years)
Prof. Ing. M.R. Massimino