State-of-the-art review of energy-based seismic design methods

N Gholami, S Garivani, SS Askariani - Archives of Computational Methods …, 2022 - Springer
This paper presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the research carried out on
the energy-based structural seismic design methods. Since earthquake exerts energy to the …

Effects of structural symmetry of introduced polyether diol on low temperature tolerance of laminated polyurethane bearings in bridges

X Xu, Y Yuan, S Wang, D Zhang, H Zhu - Construction and Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Laminated seismic isolators are installed on highway bridges worldwide to minimize the risk
of seismic collapse. In recent years, Laminated Polyurethane Bearing (LPB) has gained …

Ground-motion prediction equations for constant-strength and constant-ductility input energy spectra

Y Cheng, A Lucchini, F Mollaioli - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2020 - Springer
In this study, new ground motion prediction equations are proposed for both constant-
ductility and constant-strength absolute and relative input energy spectra. The proposed …

Empirical correlations between the spectral input energy and spectral acceleration

Y Cheng, J Wang, Y Zhang… - Journal of Earthquake …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Correlating different intensity measures (IMs) enables the joint consideration of multiple IMs
in various performance-based earthquake engineering applications, such as ground motion …

Estimation of input energy spectrum from pseudo-velocity response spectrum incorporating the influences of magnitude, distance, and site conditions

H Zhang, YG Zhao, FW Ge, Y Fang, T Ochiai - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The input energy spectrum is useful information for determining the hysteretic energy
demand in energy-based seismic design. The input energy spectrum commonly expressed …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the energy-based design theory: Towards the application to self-centering systems

G Song, Y Zhou, TY Yang - Resilient Cities and Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Self-centering systems exhibit superior performance during earthquake shaking with lower
damage and less residual deformations. Although the equivalent static force design …

Use of simulated ground motions for the evaluation of energy response of simple structural systems

S Karimzadeh, V Ozsarac, A Askan… - Soil Dynamics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The literature on energy-based seismic design and assessment methodologies of structural
systems mostly relies on real ground motion datasets. However, certain bias exists due to …

GMPEs for elastic input energy spectra of horizontal and vertical offshore ground motions based on the ETMC database in Japan

J Hu, J Tan - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the characteristics of offshore ground motions related to elastic relative and
absolute input energy are investigated, and ground-motion prediction equations (GMPEs) …

Relationship between SDOF‐Input‐Energy and Fourier Amplitude Spectral Amplification Ratios

H Zhang, YG Zhao, T Ochiai… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This article presents the theoretical relationship between the site amplification ratio of the
input energy spectrum for a single‐degree‐of‐freedom system (SDOF) and that of the …

[PDF][PDF] Computing input energy response of MDOF systems to actual ground motions based on modal contributions

T Ucar - Earthq. Struct, 2020 - researchgate.net
The use of energy concepts in seismic analysis and design of structures requires the
understanding of the input energy response of multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) systems …