【精选】Earthquake Loss Evaluation of Buildings Based on Story EDP -DV Functions.pdf

Architectural Engineering November 2013, Volume 1, Issue 3, PP.52-59 Earthquake Loss Evaluation of Buildings Based on Story EDP-DV Functions † Zhaoping Jia , Ziyan Wu, Qi ’ang Wang School of Civil Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710 129, China †Email: zpjia89920@163.com Abstract In order to quantify the seismic performance of buildings reasonably and effectively, the paper puts forward the method of earthquake loss evaluation of buildings based on story EDP-DV functions. Firstly, considering the randomness of seismic response parameters, the distribution functions of story EDPs at a given level of ground motion intensity can be achieved through Incremental Dynamic Analysis. Meanwhile, story EDP-DV functions which relate story response parameters (story EDPs) directly to economic losses (DVs) can be created beforehand by integrating component fragility functions and loss functions; they can be called directly without double computation for the same type of buildings. Lastly, the economic losses of a building at a given level of ground motion intensity can be achieved by combining the distribution functions of story EDPs and story EDP-DV functions. On this occasion, the proposed method omits the damage measure in PEER methodology and makes the story not component as a unit of account to evaluate the earthquake losses of a building reasonably and accurately. The numerical example shows that the proposed method is feasible and reasonable to quantify the seismic performance of buildings. Keywords: Seismic Performance; Earthqu