Affiliation:
1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
2. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Civil Structure Protection and Reinforcement Tianjin Chengjian University Tianjin China
3. Key Laboratory of Coast Civil Structure Safety of Ministry of Education Tianjin University Tianjin China
Abstract
AbstractObservations in major earthquakes have shown that rockable structures suffered less to no damage. During rocking, that is, partial and temporary footing separations, the influx of seismic energy is interrupted and thus the impact of the base excitation is reduced. Rocking causes the structure to deform more rigid like. Consequently, the structure experiences less deformation along the height and thus a lower damage potential. Although many researchers have studied the influence of rockable footings, most of these are either analytical or numerical, and only a very few structures have been built with rockable footings worldwide, for example, the chimney at Christchurch Airport and the South Rangitikei Viaduct in New Zealand. Despite these studies, a thorough and understanding is not yet available, especially with respect to experimental validations. This work is the first to investigate the rocking behaviour of bridges with different slenderness using large‐scale shake table experiments. To limit the number of influence factors, a stiff footing support and the same fixed‐base fundamental frequency of the bridges were assumed. The result shows that the girder displacement and the footing rotation of the tall bridge do not always move in phase, which cannot be observed in the short bridge. The results demonstrate the important role of slenderness in the overall responses of rockable bridges. This behaviour cannot be observed in bridges with a commonly assumed fixed base since the slenderness effect cannot be activated.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous),Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology,Civil and Structural Engineering
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