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Elcentro earthquake (California, May 18, 1940, NS component)

Contents

 Initial definitions

 Processing

 Validation

 Copyright

Initial definitions

The following initial definitions are made (in the order presented below):

Open file elcentro.dat.

fid=fopen('elcentro.dat','r');

Read the text contained in the file elcentro.dat.

text=textscan(fid,'%f %f');

Close file elcentro.dat.

fclose(fid);

Set the time step of the input acceleration time history.

time=text{1,1};

dt=time(2)-time(1);

Set the input acceleration time history ( ).

xgtt=text{1,2};

Set the eigenperiod of an ideally zero-stiffness SDOF oscillator, in order to calculate the
maximum velocity of the earthquake.

Tsoft=1000;

Set the eigenperiod range for which the response spectra will be calculated.

Tspectra=logspace(log10(0.02),log10(50),1000)';

Set three distinct values for the critical damping ratio ( ) of the
response spectra to be calculated.

ksi1=0;

ksi2=0.1;

ksi3=0.2;
Set the minimum absolute value of the eigenvalues of the amplification matrix.

rinf=1;

Set the algorithm to be used for the integration.

AlgID='U0-V0-Opt';

Set the initial displacement of all SDOF oscillators analysed.

u0=0;

Set the initial velocity of all SDOF oscillators analysed.

ut0=0;

Take the maximum ground acceleration.

maxxgtt=max(abs(xgtt));

Processing

Calculation of the maximum velocity of the earthquake.

[~,~,~,maxxgt,~]=ERS(dt,xgtt,Tsoft,0,rinf,AlgID,u0,ut0)

maxxgt =

0.0368

Extraction of the elastic response spectra and pseudospectra for the three values of the critical
damping ratio.

[PSa1,PSv1,Sd1,Sv1,Sa1]=ERS(dt,xgtt,Tspectra,ksi1,rinf,AlgID,u0,ut0);

[PSa2,PSv2,Sd2,Sv2,Sa2]=ERS(dt,xgtt,Tspectra,ksi2,rinf,AlgID,u0,ut0);

[PSa3,PSv3,Sd3,Sv3,Sa3]=ERS(dt,xgtt,Tspectra,ksi3,rinf,AlgID,u0,ut0);

Validation

 Verification of figure 6.12.1 of Chopra (Dynamics of Structures).

Plot relative velocity and pseudo velocity spectra for .

figure('Name','Figure 6.12.1(a)','NumberTitle','off')

semilogx(Tspectra,Sv2/maxxgt,'-b','LineWidth',1.)

hold on

semilogx(Tspectra,PSv2/maxxgt,'-r','LineWidth',1.)

hold off

grid on
xlabel('T_n','FontSize',13);

ylabel('S_V/maxv or PS_V/maxv','FontSize',13);

title('Figure 6.12.1(a) of Chopra','FontSize',13)

xlim([0.02,50]);

legend('S_V/maxv','PS_V/maxv')

Plot the pseudo-velocity/relative velocity ratio for the three values of the critical damping ratio
( ).

figure('Name','Figure 6.12.1(b)','NumberTitle','off')

semilogx(Tspectra,PSv1./Sv1,'-b','LineWidth',1.)

hold on

semilogx(Tspectra,PSv2./Sv2,'-r','LineWidth',1.)

semilogx(Tspectra,PSv3./Sv3,'-g','LineWidth',1.)

hold off

grid on

xlabel('T_n','FontSize',13);

ylabel('PS_V/S_V','FontSize',13);

title('Figure 6.12.1(b) of Chopra','FontSize',13)

xlim([0.02,50]);

legend('\xi=0','\xi=0.1','\xi=0.2')

Original figure 6.12.1 of Chopra (Dynamics of Structures).

  Verification of figure 6.12.2 of Chopra (Dynamics of Structures).

Plot acceleration and pseudo acceleration spectra for .

figure('Name','Figure 6.12.2(a)','NumberTitle','off')

semilogx(Tspectra,Sa2/maxxgtt,'-b','LineWidth',1.)

hold on
semilogx(Tspectra,PSa2/maxxgtt,'-r','LineWidth',1.)

hold off

grid on

xlabel('T_n','FontSize',13);

ylabel('S_A/maxa or PS_A/maxa','FontSize',13);

title('Figure 6.12.2(a) of Chopra','FontSize',13)

xlim([0.02,50]);

legend('S_A/maxa','PS_A/maxa')

Plot the pseudo-acceleration/acceleration ratio for the three values of the critical damping
ratio ( ).

figure('Name','Figure 6.12.2(b)','NumberTitle','off')

semilogx(Tspectra,PSa1./Sa1,'-b','LineWidth',1.)

hold on

semilogx(Tspectra,PSa2./Sa2,'-r','LineWidth',1.)

semilogx(Tspectra,PSa3./Sa3,'-g','LineWidth',1.)

hold off

grid on
xlabel('T_n','FontSize',13);

ylabel('PS_A/S_A','FontSize',13);

title('Figure 6.12.2(b) of Chopra','FontSize',13)

xlim([0.02,50]);

legend('\xi=0','\xi=0.1','\xi=0.2','Location','SouthWest')

Original figure 6.12.2 of Chopra (Dynamics of Structures).

Copyright

Copyright (c) 12-Aug-2014 by George Papazafeiropoulos

 First Lieutenant, Infrastructure Engineer, Hellenic Air Force

 Civil Engineer, M.Sc., Ph.D. candidate, NTUA

  Email: gpapazafeiropoulos@yahoo.gr

 Website: http://users.ntua.gr/gpapazaf/

Published with MATLAB® R2012b