Soft storey effects on plastic hinge propagation of moment resisting reinforced concrete building subjected to Ranau earthquake

On 5th June 2015, a moderate earthquake with Mw 5.9 hit Ranau, resulted in damages of the existing non-seismically designed buildings, such that 61 buildings, including mosques, schools, hospitals and Ranau police headquarters were suffered from different level structural damages. Soft storey irregu...

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Main Authors: Tan, Chee Ghuan, Chia, Wei Ting, Majid, Taksiah A., Nazri, Fadzli Mohamed, Adiyanto, Mohd Irwan
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Aseismic buildings
Buildings
Columns (structural)
Concrete construction
Earthquake damage
Earthquake loads
Earthquake resistance
Earthquakes
Mosques
Plastic properties
Police
Propagation
Public buildings
Reinforced concrete
Seismic engineering
Seismic response
Structural damage
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Summary:On 5th June 2015, a moderate earthquake with Mw 5.9 hit Ranau, resulted in damages of the existing non-seismically designed buildings, such that 61 buildings, including mosques, schools, hospitals and Ranau police headquarters were suffered from different level structural damages. Soft storey irregularity is one of the main reasons of the building damage. This study is to investigate the soft-story effect on the propagation path of plastic hinges RC building under seismic excitation. The plastic hinges formation and seismic performance of five moment resisting RC frames with different infill configurations are studied. The seismic performance of building is evaluated by Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA). Open ground soft storey structure shows the lowest seismic resistance, collapses at 0.55g pga. The maximum interstorey drift ratio (IDRmax) in soft storey buildings ranging from 0.53% to 2.96% which are far greater than bare frame ranging from 0.095% to 0.69%. The presence of infill walls creates stiffer upper stories causing moments concentrate at the soft storey, resulting the path of plastic hinge propagation is dominant at the soft storey columns. Hence, the buildings with soft storey are very susceptible under earthquake load.
ISSN:0094-243X
1551-7616
DOI:10.1063/1.5005748