SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE

Nonlinear analysis of earthquake-induced

vibrations

Master Of Science Final Project

Vlad Inculeț
Academic advisor: Lars V. Andersen, Associate Professor, PhD

March 2, 2016
 Introduction to Earthquake Engineering

Earthquake - geological phenomenon produced

by sudden release of energy
that generates seismic waves

Described by - accelerograms on Seismic data - readings performed

three directions in Seismic Stations
Objective: study the behavior of structures
under seismic loads

Static analysis

Methods used 1. Rectangular cross-section steel beam

2. Reinforced concrete beam
 Analytical methods

 Matlab 2D FEA Dynamic analysis

 Abaqus 3D FEA 3. Rectangular cross-section steel

column
4. Multi-storey framed steel structure
encoded in 5. Multi-storey framed reinforced
Matlab for concrete structure
general cases
3 4 5

1 2
 Rectangular cross-section steel beam
 Analytically

Bernoulli-Euler

Timoshenko

Navier formula

vmax=15.183 mm
σmax=337.5 MPa
 Rectangular cross-section steel beam
 Matlab 2D FEA, Input encoded for L, n_nodes and q
 Rectangular cross-section steel beam
 Abaqus 3D FEA
 Rectangular cross-section steel beam
 Abaqus 3D FEA
 Rectangular cross-section steel beam
 Results
 Reinforced concrete beam
 Analytically, Approach 1
 Reinforced concrete beam
 Analytically, Approach 2

a2=33mm
xpl=17.3mm
 Reinforced concrete beam
 Analytically: centroid, equivalent ‘EI’, displacement
 Reinforced concrete beam
 Analytically, results
 Reinforced concrete beam
 Analytically: Matlab general case code and Smartphone app

to come
 Defining concrete in Abaqus

Concrete damage plasticity with default Abaqus coefficients

 Reinforced concrete beam
 Abaqus 3D FEA, preprocessing
 Reinforced concrete beam
 Abaqus 3D FEA: postprocessing (displacement field and compressive
behavior)
 Reinforced concrete beam
 Abaqus 3D FEA: postprocessing (displacement results and tensile
behavior)
MRd,solid=11.25*10^7 kNm MRd,wire=12.375*10^7 kNm Analytically

MRd,analytically=7.01*10^7 kNm
 Rectangular cross-section steel column
 Matlab 2D FEA: eigen modes, equation of motion
 Rectangular cross-section steel column
 Matlab 2D FEA: modal analysis, displacement field
 Rectangular cross-section steel column
 Abaqus 3D FEA (eigenmodes and accelerograms implementation)
 Rectangular cross-section steel column
 Abaqus 3D FEA, postprocessing (Normal Stresses and global displacements)

Abaqus Matlab
 Multi-storey framed steel structure
 Abaqus 3D FEA: Geometry, Mesh, Eigenmodes, Normal Stresses
 Multi-storey framed steel structure
 Abaqus 3D FEA: Drifts
and Strains
 Multi-storey framed reinforced
concrete structure
 Abaqus 3D FEA, preprocessing

Lcolumn=Lbeam=2800mm
Cross-section 300x300mm
Each element reinforced with 4Φ14 (modeled as wire)
Concrete cover: 37mm to rebar center (30mm to rebar
edge)
 Multi-storey framed reinforced
concrete structure
 Abaqus 3D FEA, postprocessing (Vrancea Earthquake) (Stresses,
Strains, Drifts, Failure Mechanism)
 Multi-storey framed reinforced
concrete structure
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 Conclusions

• Steel elements, results obtained analytically are

identical as obtained in Finite Element

• Moment capacity, computed analytically – the same in

both of the approaches, good tool to use in the future

• The way of defining the material behavior of concrete

and the way of modelling the rebars play a critical
role in the time efficiency of the analysis

• High performance computer – critical asset for

advanced structural engineering

• More youtube videos, this way you can easily remind

yourself when you forget how to do something
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