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Development of Response Spectrum in Indian Context and It's Comparison

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 Development of Response Spectrum in Indian Context and It’s Comparison with
Design Spectrum
Sharadkumar P. Purohit
Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad – 382 481
sharad.purohit@nirmauni.ac.in
ABSTRACT :
Seismic force induced due to earthquake is an important parameter in designing structures and to assess
strength of existing structures. Earthquakes are recorded by accelerograph in the form of ground motion. It is
established that all earthquake ground motions do not have potential to produce enough seismic force that
causes damage to the structures. However, earthquakes quantified as Strong Ground Motion only possess
that potential. Various parameters used by researcher to quantity earthquake records as strong ground
motion includes, Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA), Peak Ground Velocity (PGV), Frequency Content, Ratio
of Peak Acceleration to Peak Velocity, Root Mean Square (RMS) Acceleration, Areas Intensity and
Duration. Each strong ground motion consists of varied frequency content in it and offer different seismic
demand on the same structure.

In the present study 184 ground motions recorded at 23 recording stations of Indian subcontinent are
compiled. Based on PGA and duration of the motion, 67 ground motions are quantified as strong ground
motion. These strong ground motion records are categorised into four segment named North Region, South
Region, East Region and West Region. Response spectrum for each strong ground motions (67 nos) are
developed solving second order differential equation of motion through Newmark-Beta numerical algorithm
using MATLAB. A Mean, Mean plus One Standard Deviation (1 ) representative response spectrums are
derived using statistical analysis for each region of the country.

The Mean and Mean + 1  response spectrums are compared with IS code specified Design Spectrum for
extreme seismic zone V. It is found that IS based design spectrum shows higher seismic demand as
compared to mean response spectrum for each region of the country. However, barring few strong motions
in East and North region that shows higher seismic demand as compared to mean + 1  response spectrum,
rest strong motions of each regions shows lower response. With respect to given data, it seems IS code
specified design spectrum is conservative in nature.

A comparison among code based design spectrum and mean & mean + 1  response spectrum is shown in
Fig. 1 (a) & (b), respectively.

(a) (b)

Fig. 1 Comparison among IS based design spectrum and (a) mean (b) mean + 1  response spectrum

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