Redundancy in Steel Moment Frame Systems Under Seismic Excitations

Finally, a framework is proposed for evaluation of structural redundancy against incipient collapse limit state. In this framework: (1) the maximum column drift ratio (MCDR) or biaxial spectral acceleration (BSA) is used to measure both demand and capacity of a given building; (2) the demand and capacity analyses of a building are performed, from which the probabilistic demand curves and the distribution of capacity are constructed; (3) both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in demand and capacity are taken into account; (4) based on the results of (2), a uniform-risk redundancy factor, RR, for design to achieve a uniform reliability level for buildings of different redundancies is obtained. This method is also used to evaluate the redundancy of a given structural system. The rho factors in NEHRP 97 and in NEHRP 2003 and the proposed RR factor are compared and the inadequacies of rho factors are pointed out.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Liao, Kuo-Wei

Contributors dc:contributor

• Yi-Kwei Wen

• Engineering, Civil

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3153364

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/83244