Research on the importance and structural vulnerability assessment of RC frame components and robustness improvement methods

Abstract

To reasonably evaluate the robustness of RC frame structures, the ability to resist continuous collapse is improved. In this paper, the members’ contribution to the bearing capacity of the structure and the impact of the member’s failure are comprehensively considered, and the calculation method of the importance coefficient of the member is improved. At the same time, the structural vulnerability coefficient based on the change of the strain energy of the structure is combined with the reasonable assessment of the structural robustness through the two aspects of the member and the structure finishing. The redundancy analysis of the peripheral components of the failed components is carried out, and the low redundancy components are strengthened to improve the robustness of the structure to achieve the purpose of “strengthening the part and improving the whole”. On this basis, this paper evaluates the robustness of a four-story RC frame structure. It strengthens the low redundancy components under the influence of failure components to meet the requirements of improving the robustness of the structure, which verifies the rationality of the robustness evaluation method of the RC frame structure in this paper and the feasibility of improving the robustness of the structure.

Keywords

• robustness
• rc frame construction
• component importance factor
• structural vulnerability
• performance improvement