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Seismic fragility analysis of irregular bridges with non-circular tall piers considering ground motion directionality

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To fully assess the seismic performance of irregular bridge structures with non-circular piers, a novel seismic fragility analysis method for bridge components is proposed accordingly. The method is proposed based on engineering structural reliability theory, and three independent limit state equations are adopted to represent three types of seismic damage, two of which are related to pier biaxial bending and shearing damage separately and the other is related to bearing deformation damage. The pier biaxial bending and shearing limit state equations are developed with reference to current well-established theory on the failure surfaces of reinforced concrete columns. The bearing deformation limit state equation is developed based on bearing’s relative displacement. Each limit state equation is defined with 4 different limit states and the quantitative criteria on different limit states are also specified together. The seismic fragility analysis for the components of a certain irregular rigid-frame continuous combined bridge under the excitations of 3D ground motions is taken as a case study to thoroughly interpret the novel seismic fragility analysis method, and the impacts of incidence angles for horizontal ground motion on the component fragilities are discussed. It is shown that the proposed method is more appropriate in evaluating seismic performance of bridge components. In addition, the seismic vulnerability of the bridge structure system is also discussed by incorporating the first-order reliability theory.

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Acknowledgements

The research reported here has been conducted as part of the result of a series of research projects granted by the National Key Research and Development Plan with 2016YFC0802202, National Science Foundation with 51678489&51978577, Science and Technology Program of Yunnan Provincial Communication Department with 2017(A)03, Science and Technology Project of Power China with SCMQ-201728-ZB. Special thanks to Prof. Yuk Hon Chai, Prof. Qiao Li, Dr. Jun Dong & Mr. Jiaqi Yao for their helps and comments to improve the manuscript.

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    Deshan Shan & Faxian Qu

  2. Yunnan Highway Science and Technology Research Institute, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

    Faxian Qu & Xudong Deng

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Shan, D., Qu, F. & Deng, X. Seismic fragility analysis of irregular bridges with non-circular tall piers considering ground motion directionality. Bull Earthquake Eng 18, 1723–1753 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-019-00769-z

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