TY  - CHAP
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
ED  - Vacareanu, Radu
ED  - Ionescu, Constantin
T1  - Seismic design and evaluation of industrial facilities
T2  - Progresses in European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology. Third European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology – Bucharest, 2022
N2  - Industrial facilities must be thoroughly designed to withstand seismic
actions as they exhibit an increased loss potential due to the possibly wideranging
damage consequences and the valuable process engineering equipment.
Past earthquakes showed the social and political consequences of seismic damage
to industrial facilities and sensitized the population and politicians worldwide
for the possible hazard emanating from industrial facilities. However, a holistic
approach for the seismic design of industrial facilities can presently neither be
found in national nor in international standards. The introduction of EN 1998-4
of the new generation of Eurocode 8 will improve the normative situation with
specific seismic design rules for silos, tanks and pipelines and secondary process
components. The article presents essential aspects of the seismic design of
industrial facilities based on the new generation of Eurocode 8 using the example
of tank structures and secondary process components. The interaction effects of
the process components with the primary structure are illustrated by means of
the experimental results of a shaking table test of a three story moment resisting
steel frame with different process components. Finally, an integrated approach of
digital plant models based on building information modelling (BIM) and structural
health monitoring (SHM) is presented, which provides not only a reliable
decision-making basis for operation, maintenance and repair but also an excellent
tool for rapid assessment of seismic damage.
KW  - Industrial facilities
KW  - Seismic design
KW  - Tanks
KW  - EN 1998-4
KW  - Structural health monitoring
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 978-3-031-15103-3
SN  - 978-3-031-15106-4
SN  - 978-3-031-15104-0
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15104-0
SN  - 2524-342X
SN  - 2524-3438
N1  - Third European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology. 04-09.09 Bucharest, Romania.
SP  - 449
EP  - 464
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Morandi, Paolo
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Breis, Khaled
A1  - Beyer, Katrin
A1  - Magenes, Guido
ED  - Ansal, Atilla
T1  - Latest findings on the behaviour factor q for the seismic design of URM buildings
JF  - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
N2  - Recent earthquakes as the 2012 Emilia earthquake sequence showed that recently built unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings behaved much better than expected and sustained, despite the maximum PGA values ranged between 0.20–0.30 g, either minor damage or structural damage that is deemed repairable. Especially low-rise residential and commercial masonry buildings with a code-conforming seismic design and detailing behaved in general very well without substantial damages. The low damage grades of modern masonry buildings that was observed during this earthquake series highlighted again that codified design procedures based on linear analysis can be rather conservative. Although advances in simulation tools make nonlinear calculation methods more readily accessible to designers, linear analyses will still be the standard design method for years to come. The present paper aims to improve the linear seismic design method by providing a proper definition of the q-factor of URM buildings. These q-factors are derived for low-rise URM buildings with rigid diaphragms which represent recent construction practise in low to moderate seismic areas of Italy and Germany. The behaviour factor components for deformation and energy dissipation capacity and for overstrength due to the redistribution of forces are derived by means of pushover analyses. Furthermore, considerations on the behaviour factor component due to other sources of overstrength in masonry buildings are presented. As a result of the investigations, rationally based values of the behaviour factor q to be used in linear analyses in the range of 2.0–3.0 are proposed.
KW  - Unreinforced masonry buildings
KW  - Modern constructions
KW  - Seismic design
KW  - Linear elastic analysis
KW  - Behaviour factor q
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10518-022-01419-7
SN  - 1573-1456
SN  - 1570-761X
VL  - 20
IS  - 11
SP  - 5797
EP  - 5848
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - Cham
ER  -