Location

San Diego, California

Presentation Date

30 Mar 2001, 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Abstract

A finite element based computational procedure is presented for soil-structure interaction modeling in building seismic response. Attention is focused on a combination of contact surfaces at the soil-foundation interface, nonlinear soil material and infinite elements as transmitting boundary conditions. A rationale for efficient mesh design is offered for the building/foundation/soil system model based on computational wave propagation studies using infinite elements. As a the proposed procedure, a comparison is made between results of eigen mode analysis of two models for a 3-story office building, with the conventional treatment of the foundation and soil as discrete linear springs [3], and the other incorporating the propose procedure.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Meeting Name

4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Document Version

Final Version

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© 2001 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.

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Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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text

Language

English

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Computational Simulation Procedure for Soil-Structure Interaction Modeling in Building Seismic Damage Response

San Diego, California

A finite element based computational procedure is presented for soil-structure interaction modeling in building seismic response. Attention is focused on a combination of contact surfaces at the soil-foundation interface, nonlinear soil material and infinite elements as transmitting boundary conditions. A rationale for efficient mesh design is offered for the building/foundation/soil system model based on computational wave propagation studies using infinite elements. As a the proposed procedure, a comparison is made between results of eigen mode analysis of two models for a 3-story office building, with the conventional treatment of the foundation and soil as discrete linear springs [3], and the other incorporating the propose procedure.