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    [PDF] The Complete Guide to Seismic Analysis

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    Do you know about the methods of Seismic Analysis and their application in midas Civil?

     

    Seismic analysis is needed to investigate the response of a structure to earthquakes and design the structures accordingly. Several types of methods may be used for the seismic analysis of bridges such as static seismic method, response spectrum method, pushover analysis, and time history analysis. Midas Civil software provides all these sophisticated techniques to be used in an intuitive way which can accelerate the seismic design of bridges manyfold.

     

     

    Through this eBook, we will learn about various concepts of seismic analysis of bridges and how we can implement the same in Midas Civil. Furthermore, some important considerations and practical aspects of modeling are discussed regarding the seismic analysis of curved bridges and cable bridges.

     

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    1. What is Seismic Analysis?
        - Seismic Design Process
          Most of the structures need to be designed for earthquake or seismic events by performing 
          seismic analysis which could be a simple static seismic load or a dynamic analysis in which 
          ground acceleration is applied to the structure and the response is captured. 

    2. Key Concepts/Methods of Seiemic Analysis

        02-1. Equivalent Static Seismic Force Method
        02-2. Modal Analysis
        02-3. Response Spectrum Analysis

               * Seismic Load by Response Spectrum Analysis
                      Step1. Setup Eigenvalue analysis
                      Step2. Define the Response Spectrum function based on the code
                      Step3. Select the method used to combine the results for different mode

         02-4. Pushover Analysis
                 - Pushover Global Control
                 - Pushover Load Cases
                 - Pushover Hinge Properties and Assignment

        02-5. Time History Analysis
                - Modal Method
                - Direct Integration method

    3. Application in midas Civil
        - 03-1. Curved Bridges
        - 03-2. Cable Bridges
                  - Axial Stiffness of Cable - Ernst equation
                  - Geometric Stiffness of Cable 

    Seismic analysis is crucial to investigate the response of a structure to earthquakes and design 
    the structures accordingly. Different methods of analysis can be adopted to assess the seismic 
    behavior starting from a basic linear static method to rather comprehensive and sophisticated 
    techniques like pushover analysis and non-linear time history analysis which are briefly 
    discussed in this article. The application of various seismic methods using FEM Software(midas 
    Civil) is also described. In general, the designer can adapt the seismic method for a given 
    structure using code guidelines to ensure safe design while maintaining the cost savings.

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