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Kamgar R, Falaki Nafchi Z. OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM IN COMPUTATION OF THE CRITICAL EARTHQUAKE TO EVALUATE THE SUFFICIENCY OF DISCONTINUITY JOINT BASED ON THE IRANIAN STANDARD NO. 2800. IJOCE 2025; 15 (1) :1-13
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1- Department of Civil Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
2- Department of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
2- Department of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
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Earthquakes are random phenomena and there has been no report of similar earthquakes occurring worldwide. Therefore, traditional methods of designing buildings based on past earthquakes with inappropriate discontinuity joints are sometimes ineffective for vital structures. This may lead to collision and destruction of adjacent structures during a severe earthquake. As in the Iranian Standard No. 2800-4, this distance should be at least five-thousandths of the building height from the base level to the adjacent ground boundary for buildings up to eight stories to prevent or reduce this damage. Also, for important or/with more than eight-story buildings, this value is determined using the maximum nonlinear lateral displacement of the structures by considering the effects of the P-delta. Also, if the properties of the adjacent building are not known, this distance should be considered at least equal to 70% of the maximum nonlinear lateral displacement of the structures. The main objective of this study is to investigate the adequacy of the discontinuity joint introduced in the Iranian Standard No. 2800-4 based on the critical excitation method. This method calculates critical earthquakes for three buildings (e.g., three-, seven- and eleven-story moment frames) by considering some constraints on the energy, peak ground acceleration, Fourier amplitude, and strong ground motion duration. The results indicate that the minimum gap between two adjacent buildings derived from the existing codes is lower than those calculated using the critical excitation method. Therefore, oscillation might occur if a structure is designed according to the seismic codes and subjected to a critical earthquake.
Keywords: Critical earthquake, discontinuity joint, nonlinear dynamic analysis, Iranian code No. 2800-4, metaheuristic optimization algorithm
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