Fragility Assessments of Multi-Story Piping Systems within a Seismically Isolated Low-Rise Building

Yonghee Ryu, Shinyoung Kwag and Bu‐Seog Ju
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Yonghee Ryu: Department of Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Shinyoung Kwag: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon 34057, Korea
Bu‐Seog Ju: Department of Civil Engineering, Kyung Hee University, YongIn-Si, Gyeonggi-Do 17104, Korea

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-16

Abstract: A successful, advanced safety design method for building and piping structures is related to its functionality and sustainability in beyond-design-basis events such as extremely strong ground motions. This study develops analytical models of seismically isolated building-piping systems in which multi-story piping systems are installed in non-isolated and base-isolated, low-rise buildings. To achieve the sustainable design of a multi-story piping system subjected to strong ground motions, Triple Friction Pendulum (TFP) elements, specifically TFP bearings, were incorporated into the latter building structure. Then, a seismic fragility analysis was performed in consideration of the uncertainty of the seismic ground motions, and the piping fragilities for the seismically non-isolated and the base-isolated building models were quantified. Here, the failure probability of the piping system in the non-isolated building was greater than that in the seismically isolated building. The seismic isolation design of the building improved the sustainability and functionality of the piping system by significantly reducing the seismic energy of extreme ground motions which was input to the building structure itself.

Keywords: Triple Friction Pendulum; building-piping; seismic fragility; T-joint; base isolation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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