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Eurocode 8-compatible synthetic time-series as input to dynamic analysis

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Nonlinear dynamic analysis of existing or planned structures often requires the use of accelerograms that match a target design spectrum. Here, our main concern is to generate a set of motions with a good level of fit to the Eurocode 8 design spectra for France. Synthetic time series are generated by means of a non-stationary stochastic method. To calibrate the input parameters in the stochastic approach, we select a reference set of accelerograms for a Eurocode 8 type B site category from the PEER Ground-Motion Database, which are then adjusted to the target spectrum through wavelet addition. Then, we compute nonlinear seismic responses of a soil column, including pore pressure effects, and brittle and ductile structures to the stochastic time-series, the natural accelerograms and time-series generated using stationary stochastic approaches. The results of these calculations reveal considerable variability in response despite the similarities in terms of spectral acceleration.

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This work was partially sponsored by the Ministry of Sustainable Development through the French Accelerometric Network working group “Seismic ground motion for engineering”. An earlier version was presented at the 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (Lisbon, Portugal) in September 2012 (Laurendeau et al. 2012). We thank Pierre Gehl and Jaime Abad for computing the responses of the masonry structure and Pierino Lestuzzi for providing the Takeda code. We also thank Julien Rey for fruitful discussions. Finally, we thank two anonymous reviewers and Roberto Paolucci for their constructive comments on an earlier version of this article.

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Causse, M., Laurendeau, A., Perrault, M. et al. Eurocode 8-compatible synthetic time-series as input to dynamic analysis. Bull Earthquake Eng 12, 755–768 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-013-9544-2

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