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ABSTRACT
The 20 meters high seismically isolated structure located in seismic precautionary intensity of 8
degree area, which is designed in accordance with China's specification, uses Chinese code response
spectrum to do elastic design for frequently occurred earthquake case, and the designed results meet the
requirements of the seismic three-stage design of Chinese specification. Considering the wind resistance
capability and tensile capacity of rubber isolator, the layout of 28 laminated rubber bearing isolators; 14 of
which are lead rubber bearings and 14 ordinary natural rubber bearings are determined. According to the
demand of Chinese seismic code, two natural seismic waves and one synthesized artificial earthquake wave
(adjusted peak acceleration 200gal) with Chinese seismic response spectrum are used. After doing the elastic
time history analysis for above three seismic waves, the horizontal seismic reduced factor = 0.30, which is
the ratio of the shear force of isolation structure to that of the original structure could be obtained and it
means that Chinese design intensity for isolation structure could be reduced by one degree of design category
for the original structure. The upper structure of isolation structure using the above obtained was
redesigned by the elastic same analysis for the frequently occurring earthquake level. Finally for the strong
earthquake level; 400 gal, the nonlinear response analysis was performed both for the original structure
without seismic isolation and for the seismic isolation structure. In case of seismic structure the maximum
story drift angle could be confirmed to be smaller than the seismic code limit of 1/50 to meet Chinese
specifications requirements.
Keywords: Isolation Code, horizontal seismic reduced factor, Elasto-plastic analysis
1 INTRODUCTION
China is an earthquake-prone country with great loss of earthquake disasters. In recent years,
in China three big earthquakes which magnitude exceeded 7.0; 2008.5.12 Sichuan Wenchuan M8.0
earthquake, 2011.4.14 Qinghai Yushu M7.1 earthquake and 2013.4.20 Sichuan Lushan M7.0
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earthquake occurred. Structure seismic isolation is the most effective methods to against earthquake,
which was gradually approved by Chinese society. After 30 years development, seismic isolation
technology had a lot of engineering applications in China, especially after 2008 Sichuan Wenchuan
earthquake, there was big growth in number of seismic isolation technology applications. In 2013
Sichuan Lushan earthquake, an outpatient hospital building constructed by the seismic isolation
technology experienced the earthquake shock but the building's structural and non-structural
components had no damage. From this lesson, it was strongly recognized that the seismic isolation
technology is very useful anti-seismic technology in China.
2 CHINESE SEISMIC ISOLATION DESIGN BACKGROUND
2.1 Chinese Seismic isolation Design Code
Now China has seven technology codes for seismic isolation structure (Table 1). Seismic
isolation structure design mainly is provided in the national standard <Code for seismic design of
buildings>(GB50011-2011), and in this code the chapter 12's provisions give the demands for
seismic isolation design, but still now, China has not yet formulated specifically for seismic
isolation design specifications.
Table 1 - Chinese Seismic isolation Structure Design Codes
Code Name
<Code for seismic design of buildings> GB50011-2010 Chapter 12:
seismically Isolated and Energy-Dissipated Buildings
Technical specification for seismic isolation with laminated rubber
bearing isolators CECS 126:2001
General rule for performance-based seismic design of buildings
CECS160:2004
Rubber bearing-Part1:Seismic-Protection isolators test methods GB/T
20688.1-2007
Rubber bearing-Part3: Elastomeric Seismic-Protection isolators for
building GB/T 20688.3-2006
Rubber isolation bearings for building JG 118-2000
Building isolation structural detail drawing 03SG610-1
Code Level
National Code
Association Criterion
Association Criterion
National Standard
National Standard
Industry Standard
National Standard
structure. In the view point of the elasto-plastic analysis considering the characteristics of isolation
structure, in this paper the strong earthquakes were selected in order to get the conformity with the
isolated structure period.
G4.0
LRB600
LRB700
LNR500
LNR600
LNR700
Mpa
KN/mm
KN/m
0.392
2445
1681
0.392
3259
1961
0.392
1525
705
0.392
2097
909
0.392
2861
1060
26.5
26.5
<5
<5
<5
11612.5
929
90.2
233.0
120
600
620
4
19562.5
1084
122.7
265
140
700
720
10
164.0
30
500
520
4
254891
24589
2235.8
233.0
30
600
620
4
265.0
50
700
720
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calculated. Table 3 shows the results of response analysis. From this table, we can get the big
damping effect and the maximum ratio becomes 0.25. From macroscopic view, we can confirm that
the upper structure's design shear force could be reduced as 1 degree of seismic intensity in China.
Chi-Chi Wave X
Chi-Chi Wave Y
Livermore Wave X
Livermore Wave Y
Artificial Wave X
Artificial Wave Y
Chi-Chi Wave
X
Y
direction direction
0.13
0.12
Livermore Wave
X
Y
direction direction
0.11
0.10
Artificial Wave
X
Y
direction direction
0.15
0.14
0.14
0.14
0.13
0.11
0.18
0.17
0.16
0.17
0.15
0.14
0.20
0.20
0.19
0.22
0.17
0.17
0.21
0.22
0.22
0.25
0.20
0.20
0.25
0.23
Max ratio
0.25
Chi-Chi Wave
Livermore Wave
Artificial Wave
Yielding strain
0.0012
0.0011
0.0016
Column
0.0010
0.0013
0.0018
0.002
0.000709
0.000568
0.001088
Column
0.00060
0.000635
0.000835
0.002
From Figure 8, we can see the rubber bearings consumed the most of seismic energy and the
main structural components consumed less than 50% of seismic energy which caused by the elastic
deformation.
(a)Chi-Chi Wave