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Seismic response of rocking isolated railway bridge piers with sacrificial components

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In this study, sacrificial components were incorporated into self-centering railway bridge piers to improve the lateral stiffness. The seismic response of this new detail was investigated. First, the method to compute the initial uplift moment of the self-centering pier is given. In addition, shaking table tests were conducted on a free-rocking pier without sacrificial components, which was used to validate a two-spring numerical model. Good agreement was obtained between the numerical results and experimental data. Furthermore, the validated model was employed to investigate the influence of sacrificial components on the seismic response of rocking piers. For this purpose, two models were developed, with and without sacrificial components. Nonlinear response history analysis was then performed on both models under three historical motions. The results showed that compared to the one without sacrificial components, the rocking pier with sacrificial components has comparable displacement at the top of the pier, and maximum uplift moment at high amplitude motion. Therefore, incorporating sacrificial components into the rocking pier can increase the lateral stiffness at service load and low amplitude frequent earthquakes but can produce comparable response at high seismic excitation. These results provide support for performance-based seismic design of self-centering rocking piers.

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, 730070, China

    Xiushen Xia, Jun Shi, Xingchong Chen & Huajun Ma

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MS258, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 89557, USA

    Suiwen Wu & Junfeng Jia

  3. College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China

    Junfeng Jia

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Xia, X., Wu, S., Shi, J. et al. Seismic response of rocking isolated railway bridge piers with sacrificial components. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 19, 1005–1015 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-020-0610-x

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