SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE

Nonlinear analysis of earthquake-induced

vibrations

Master Of Science Final Project

Vlad Incule
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
max=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

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 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 414 (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

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