Base Isolation for Seismic Retrofitting of a Multiple Building Structure: Design, Construction, and Assessment

The paper deals with the seismic retrofit of a multiple building structure belonging to the Hospital Centre of Avellino (Italy). At first, the paper presents the preliminary investigations, the in situ measurements and laboratory tests, and the seismic assessment of the existing fixed-base structure...

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Published in:Mathematical problems in engineering 2017-01, Vol.2017 (2017), p.1-24
Main Authors: Ferraioli, Massimiliano, Mandara, Alberto
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aseismic buildings
Assessments
Bearing strength
Building codes
Buildings
Design analysis
Earthquake accelerograms
Earthquake construction
Earthquakes
Engineering
In situ measurement
Methods
Nonlinear response
Public buildings
Retrofitting
Seismic engineering
Seismic isolation
Seismic response
Studies
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Summary:The paper deals with the seismic retrofit of a multiple building structure belonging to the Hospital Centre of Avellino (Italy). At first, the paper presents the preliminary investigations, the in situ measurements and laboratory tests, and the seismic assessment of the existing fixed-base structures. Having studied different strategies, base isolation proved to be the more appropriate, also for the possibility offered by the geometry of the building to easily create an isolation interface at the ground level. The paper presents the design project, the construction process, and the details of the isolation intervention. Some specific issues of base isolation for seismic retrofitting of multiple building structures were lightened. Finally, the seismic assessment of the base-isolated building was carried out. The seismic response was evaluated through nonlinear time-history analysis, using the well-known Bouc-Wen model as the constitutive law of the isolation bearings. For reliable dynamic analyses, a suite of natural accelerograms compatible with acceleration spectra of Italian Code was first selected and then applied along both horizontal directions. The results were finally used to address some of the critical issues of the seismic response of the base-isolated multiple building structure: accidental torsional effects and potential poundings during strong earthquakes.
ISSN:1024-123X
1563-5147
DOI:10.1155/2017/4645834