Life-cycle cost optimal design of passive dissipative devices

The cost-effective performance of structures under natural hazards such as earthquakes and hurricanes has long been recognized to be an important topic in the design of civil engineering systems. A realistic comprehensive treatment of such a design requires proper integration of (i) methodologies for treating the uncertainties related to natural hazards and to the structural behavior over the entire life-cycle of the building, (ii) tools for evaluating the performance using socioeconomic criteria, as well as (iii) algorithms appropriate for stochastic analysis and optimization. A systematic probabilistic framework is presented here for detailed estimation and optimization of the life-cycle cost of engineering systems. This framework is a general one but the application of interest here is the design of passive dissipative devices for seismic risk mitigation. A comprehensive methodology is initially presented for earthquake loss estimation; this methodology uses the nonlinear time-history response of the structure under a given excitation to estimate the damage in a detailed, component level. A realistic probabilistic model is then presented for describing the ground motion time history for future earthquake excitations. In this setting, the life-cycle cost is uncertain and can be quantified by its expected value over the space of the uncertain parameters for the structural and excitation models. Because of the complexity of these models, calculation of this expected value is performed using stochastic simulation techniques. This approach, though, involves an unavoidable estimation error and significant computational cost, features which make efficient design optimization challenging. A highly efficient framework, consisting of two stages, is discussed for this stochastic optimization. An illustrative example is presented that shows the efficiency of the proposed methodology; it considers the seismic retrofitting of a four-story non-ductile reinforced-concrete building with viscous dampers.

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