Local Site and Foundation Embedment Effect on the Seismic Response of Adjacent Structures
摘要
The close arrangement of buildings in urban areas causes the interaction effect of the vicinity to profoundly affect the response of structures. Furthermore, previous earthquakes have revealed that the soil type of the construction site would be very impressive on the seismic response of structures. With this approach, the effects of structure-soil-structure interaction and the seismic performance of structures in a group have been widely taken into account. By considering different embedment depths for the foundation, the main purpose of the present study is to investigate and compare the interaction effects of adjacent structures on seismic responses within different construction sites. Applying the Direct Method as well as defining a suitable boundary environment, the superstructure involved two 6- and 12-story concrete moment resisting frames in two different cases of deploying the foundation on the ground surface or in a depth equal to 30% of the structural height within the profiles containing soil types II and III. The modeling procedure has been conducted three-dimensionally using OpenSees platform. Investigating the acceleration, lateral displacement and shear force responses of the adjacent structures showed that the vicinity and interaction effects on the dynamic responses are dependent on the soil type as well as the embedment depth of the foundation. So that the reduction of the embedment depth within a continuum of soil type II increased the maximum acceleration and story shear force responses for the 12-story frame by 59% and 25%, respectively.