TY - GEN
T1 - Seismic risk assessment of building-elevator systems based on simulated ground motion considering long period components and phase characteristics
AU - Kohiyama, M.
AU - Kita, T.
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - An elevator in a high-rise building causes a problem of elevator rope sway. To address this problem, it is necessary to understand the relation between responses of a building and rope. In this study, earthquake ground motions are synthesized with a newly proposed simple method to construct a Fourier phase spectrum. The response of a building-elevator system is obtained using a response spectrum and complex eigenvectors, which can consider non-proportional damping. Seismic risk of elevator rope is evaluated for 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250-meter-high buildings. As a result, the probability of rope damage changes significantly depending on the height of a building and an elevator car position. It is recommended to move and park an elevator car at low risk positions when few people use the elevator such as in nighttime.
AB - An elevator in a high-rise building causes a problem of elevator rope sway. To address this problem, it is necessary to understand the relation between responses of a building and rope. In this study, earthquake ground motions are synthesized with a newly proposed simple method to construct a Fourier phase spectrum. The response of a building-elevator system is obtained using a response spectrum and complex eigenvectors, which can consider non-proportional damping. Seismic risk of elevator rope is evaluated for 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250-meter-high buildings. As a result, the probability of rope damage changes significantly depending on the height of a building and an elevator car position. It is recommended to move and park an elevator car at low risk positions when few people use the elevator such as in nighttime.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856747038
SN - 9780415669863
T3 - Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering -Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering
SP - 2568
EP - 2575
BT - Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering -Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering
T2 - 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, ICASP
Y2 - 1 August 2011 through 4 August 2011
ER -