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- Title
- Sliding Fragility of Unrestrained Equipment in Critical Facilities.
- File
- PB2001100983.pdf
- Author(s)
- Chong, W. H.; Soong, T. T.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. Earthquake Engineering Research Centers Program., July 5, 2000, 144 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- MCEER-00-0005
- Abstract
- Earthquake vulnerability of nonstructural components is usually reduced by fastening or bracing individual objects. However, there are some nonstructural components in buildings, which often cannot be restrained for protection from earthquake shaking. The response of these objects will consist sliding, rocking, or jumping. Understanding these response types will allow estimation of vulnerability to earthquake damage and will assist in the design of appropriate mitigation measures. This research concentrates on experimental and analytical studies of the sliding response of freestanding rigid objects subjected to base excitation. Analytical and experimental techniques are combined to allow determination of fragility curves for freestanding rigid equipment under seismic excitations for further improvement of seismic mitigation measures. A discrete system model, an analytical model for two-dimensional sliding under two-dimensional excitation, is developed and analyzed for specific base motions. Shaking table testing with a range of excitations and system parameters is used to define stability bounds for pure sliding motion.
- Keywords
- Sliding friction; Shaking; Nonstructural components; Fragility; Discrete systems model; Mathematical models; Tests; Earthquake damages; Bracing; Buildings; Structural responses; Stability bounds; Fastenings; Structural components; Unrestrained equipment; Shaking tables tests; Stability; Critical facilities; Earthquake engineering; Analytical techniques; Earthquakes