Damage Evolution and Failure Behavior of Post-Mainshock Damaged Rocks under Aftershock Effects

Comparison of Seismic Behavior of Buckling-restrained Braces and Yielding Brace System in Irregular and Regular Steel Frames under Mainshock and Mainshock-Aftershock

Due to low stiffness of braces after yielding, the structures with buckling-restrained braces (BRBs) experience high residual drifts during an earthquake, which can be intensified by aftershocks and causes considerable damages to structures. Also, due to poor distribution of stiffness, this problem is exacerbated for irregular structures. Recently, the yielding brace system (YBS) has been intro...

Temporal Power-laws on Preseismic Activation and Aftershock Decay Affected by Transient Behavior of Rocks

A constitutive law for rock behaviors including the brittle, transient and steady-state behaviors is derived to recognize the temporal seismicity patterns on surface displacement or prior and subsequent to mainshocks, and formulated as the relaxation modulus (i.e., the ratio of stress to strain) following a temporal power-law relaxation. This constitutive law is transformable into the empirical...

Empirical Assessment of Non-Linear Seismic Demand of Mainshock–Aftershock Ground-Motion Sequences for Japanese Earthquakes

This study investigates the effects of earthquake types, magnitudes, and hysteretic behavior on the peak and residual ductility demands of inelastic single-degree-of-freedom systems and evaluates the effects of major aftershocks on the non-linear structural responses. An extensive dataset of real mainshock–aftershock sequences for Japanese earthquakes is developed. The constructed dataset is la...

Brittle creep, damage and time-to-failure in rocks

We propose a numerical model based on static fatigue laws in order to model the time-dependent damage and deformation of rocks under creep. An empirical relation between time-to-failure and applied stress is used to simulate the behavior of each element of our finite element model. We first review available data on creep experiments, in order to study how the material properties and the loading...

Numerical Modelling of Damage Evolution and Failure Behavior of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Composites