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Performance-based seismic design of a modular pipe-rack

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posted on 2017-07-28, 13:08 authored by Alessandro de Luca di Roseto, Alessandro Palmeri, Alistair Gibb
Aimed at demonstrating the benefits of using a robust PBD (performance-based design) framework in the engineering construction industry, the seismic analysis of a typical pipe-rack module is presented in this paper, comparing prescriptive and performancebased approaches. The case-study steel frame is 6 m long, 8 m wide and 10 m tall, and is representative of this type of structures in the oil and gas industry. The hazard analysis is used to select a representative set of recorded accelerograms for increasing values of the seismic intensity measure (IM), chosen as the spectral ordinate at the fundamental period of vibration of the structure. Nonlinear time-history analyses are carried out with the commercial software SAP2000 to establish the fragility curves relevant to the pipe rack. The process is automated through MATLAB coding and a range of EDPs (engineering demand parameters) are statistically characterised, namely internal forces, deformations and absolute accelerations, which in turn are associated with various DMs (damage measures).

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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EURODYN

Citation

DE LUCA DI ROSETO, A., PALMERI, A. and GIBB, A.G.F., 2017. Performance-based seismic design of a modular pipe-rack. Procedia Engineering, 199, pp.3564-3569.

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© The Authors. Published by Elsevier

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-04-29

Publication date

2017

Notes

This paper will be presented at X International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2017, in Rome on the 10-13th Sept. This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

ISSN

1877-7058

eISSN

1877-7058

Language

  • en

Location

Rome