BAZI DÜZENSİZLİKLER İÇEREN BÜYÜK YAPI SİSTEMLERİNİN
YATAY YÜKLERE GÖRE HESABI İÇİN BİR YÖNTEM

Z.Canan GİRGİN, Doktora Tezi, Mayıs 1996

Anahtar Kelimeler: Üç boyutlu ortogonal yapı sistemi, düzlem içi şekildeğiştirmeler, düzensizlikler, düzlem alt sistem, çubuk alt sistem, indirgenmiş rijitlik matrisi, ikinci mertebe teorisi, guseli çubuk, elastik zemin, eylemsizlik kuvvetleri, malzeme bakımından lineer olmayan sistem, sınır koşulları bakımından lineer olmayan sistem, kazık, lineer olmayan yayılı şekildeğiştirme, göçme yükü



Özet: Bu çalışmada, bazı yapısal düzensizlikler içeren, ortogonal, üç boyutlu büyük yapı sistemlerinin yatay yüklere göre hesabı için bir yöntem geliştirilmiştir. Sistem, düşey ve yatay düzlem alt sistemler ile bunları oluşturan özel eleman tipi alt sistemlerden oluşmaktadır ve döşeme düzlem içi şekildeğiştirmeleri önemli olan, büyük döşeme ve perde boşlukları içeren sistemler az sayıda bilinmeyenle sistematik olarak hesaplanmaktadır. Zemine tümü veya bir bölümü ile oturma, eksenel kuvvetlerin ikinci mertebe etkileri, eylemsizlik kuvvet ve kuvvet çiftleri, uzama ve kayma şekildeğiştirmeleri, değişken kesitli elemanlar, malzeme, zemin özellikleri veya sınır koşulları bakımından lineer olmayan davranış gibi düzensizliklerin tümü Mohr yöntemi esas alınarak geliştirilen bir algoritma ile dikkate alınır. Yöntem ve algoritmanın kullanıldığı örneklerde  yüksek bir doğruluk düzeyi  elde edilmiştir.




A METHOD  FOR  THE  LATERAL  LOAD  ANALYSIS  OF
IRREGULAR  FRAMED  STRUCTURES

Ph.D. Dissertation by Z. Canan GİRGİN, May 1996

Keywords : three dimensional orthogonal framed structures, inplane deformations, irregularities, condensed stiffness matrix, planar substructures, element type substructures, second order theory (P-D effects), non-prismatic element, elastic foundation, inertia forces, material non-linearity, boundary non-linearity, pile, distributed plastic bending deformations, collapse load

Abstract: In this study, a method for the analysis of three dimensional orthogonal irregular framed structures subjected mainly to lateral loads has been developed. Vertical planar substructures, horizontal planar substructures and one dimensional element type substructures for which an algorithm based on conjugate beam method is developed are utilized in this method. Thus, the elements can be partially or completely in contact with soil which is linear or non-linear.  Any kind of irregular cross-section, inertia and rotatory inertia forces, flexural, shear and axial deformations, geometrical non-linearity due to P-D effects, distributed material and boundary non-linearity are taken into account by means of this algorithm systematically. As seen the comparison of numerical examples, the accuracy level obtained by this method and algorithm is high. 



A METHOD FOR THE LATERAL LOAD ANALYSIS OF IRREGULAR FRAMED STRUCTURES
                                                                    
      SUMMARY

Three dimensional earthquake analysis of regular framed structures can be simplified so that the total number of unknowns is reduced to a level that the problem can be solved either by the help of simple computers with low memory capacity or even manually. If the slabs are infinitely rigid in their own planes, if there are no big openings in slabs and/or in the structural walls, if most of the elements are prismatic elements with constant rigidities in their whole lengths, if the members are not very slender elements in other words if there is no need to adopt the second order theory in the design, if the members are not fully or partially supported by linear or non-linear soil media, if the inertia and/or rotatory inertia forces are negligible and if the material is elastic, the structure can be considered as a regular structure. Otherwise, the structure can be considered as an irregular structure.

In order to achieve an equivalent simplicity in the design of irregular structures which are supposed to have some of the above mentioned irregularities, new and efficient methods are necessary.

In this study, a method for the analysis of three dimensional orthogonal irregular framed structures subjected mainly to lateral loads has been developed. The structure is supposed composed of substructures.

Three different type of substructures have been identified in this study. Namely, vertical elements resisting lateral loads are considered as vertical planar substructures such as frames-shear walls or shear walls with big openings, horizontal elements distributing lateral loads are considered as horizontal planar substructures such as continuous slabs or slabs with openings and these two planar substructures are supposed to be composed of one dimensional element type substructures.

All kinds of irregularities mentioned above can be taken into consideration in these substructures automatically. The geometrical differences among planar substructures are taken into account by defining fictitious elements. 

At the beginning of analysis, only one of the similar planar substructures has been utilized and its stiffness matrix is eliminated up to lateral displacements independently by means of any well- known procedure. For this purpose, any available simple computer program can be employed, also parallel programming techniques can be used as well. The reduced matrix which is a part of this eliminated matrix and composed of stiffness terms related to only absolute lateral displacements of nodes moving together in one direction is defined as condensed lateral stiffness matrix. The condensed stiffness matrices corresponding to the other similar planar substructures  have also been determined automatically.

After having obtained the condensed lateral stiffness matrices of planar substructures, [S] defined as system stiffness matrix of three dimensional irregular framed structure, is composed of these condensed matrices. The set of lateral equilibrium equations of the related system where [q] indicates the vector of nodal external loads is stated as below,                               
 
[S][d]=[q]                       

The number of equations is equal to the number of unknowns that are taken as the lateral displacements of nodes moving together in one direction, in other words lateral story displacements. The lateral displacement vector [d] is obtained by solving equilibrium equations stated above. 

Using the lateral story displacements in the planar substructures, other unknown rotational or axial displacement components of nodes in each substructure are obtained by back-substitution in the related eliminated stiffness matrices. Unknown end forces of elements are determined by means of all these nodal displacement components in each planar substructure. The details of substructuring, the composition of stiffness matrix and the assumptions imposed have been represented in the second chapter of this study.

The third chapter outlines an algorithm developed for one dimensional element type substructures consisting of one element or the string of elements.  Following aspects are taken into consideration by the supposed simple algorithm based on conjugate beam method;

i- Not only an element, but also the string of different elements can be considered as an equivalent element,
ii- Any kind of irregular cross-section in plane or in view along the span of elements can be taken into account,
iii- Flexural, shear and axial deformations can be included in the element level analysis keeping the simplicity of the algorithm,
iv- Irregular elements can be partially or completely in contact with ground and soil which can be linear or  non-linear,
v- Geometrical non-linearity caused by second order effects of irregularly distributed axial  forces along the element can be taken into consideration,
vi-The accumulated or distributed material non-linearity is included at the element level calculations after having defined the corresponding  softened rigidities for certain parts of element and for a certain load level,
vii- Boundary  non-linearity can also be considered within the framework of the proposed  algorithm depending on a set of successive  iterations.

All kinds of irregularities given above can be defined by means of the same algorithm systematically.

One dimensional element and string of elements which are theoretically divided to small parts or some additional intermediate points are taken into account to obtain the mechanical properties such as flexibility, stiffness coefficients and fixed end forces as well. The deformed shape of element axis is obtained in a discreatized manner. It has to be kept in mind that successive iterations on the deformed shape are needed in order to determine the flexibility coefficients f11, f12, f22 and the loading coefficients f10, f10 of the element type substructures with enough accuracy.

The fictitious forces determined according to second order effects of axial forces depending on the deformed shape of the element axis, the fictitious forces which simulate soil reactions, inertia and rotatory inertia forces caused by the mass on or out of the neutral axis can be defined and be taken into consideration.

Not only the fictitious forces related to the flexural deformations, but also the fictitious moments related to the shear and axial deformations can be included in all intermediate steps of analysis.

According to all these fictitious forces and moments, there will be no difficulty to obtain flexibility and loading coefficients. First, three independent flexibility coefficients f11, f12, f22 of flexibility matrix [f] are determined using a simply supported element in the proposed algorithm. Secondly, the inverse of this matrix which is the rigidity matrix [k] has been achieved in closed form. Any kind of fictitious force defined using the deformed shape of element axes are considered in the determination of the rest of the dependent stiffness coefficients.

If the element type substructures are elastically supported at the ends, it is possible to obtain the flexibility coefficients of these special elements including the work done at the elastic supports either against rotation or settlements.

Non-linear behavior of planar structures or substructures which distributed plastic bending deformations are employed has also been taken into consideration by using this algorithm. For this reason, first the bending-curvature relationship is defined by utilizing the stress-strain relationship of material. Secondly, materially non-linear behavior is linearized in each load level by using a fictitious moment-curvature relationship. Thus, new fictitious rigidities in each element and section corresponding to the related load level are determined according to this fictitious moment-curvature relationship defined as linearization technique.  


In this study, the non-linear behavior of the structure can be determined under,

i- Proportionally increasing gravity and lateral loads,
ii- Factored constant gravity loads and proportionally increasing lateral loads 

The structures that nonlinearities caused  by geometrical changes are not taken into account collapse due to large deflections, excessive plastic deformations or the rupture of the critical sections specially in reinforced concrete structures. This load parameter is defined as collapse load parameter.

Otherwise, the structure collapses through the loss of stability and this load parameter is referred to as buckling load parameter. However, in certain cases, the structure may collapse before buckling caused by reasons stated above.

Non-linearity due to the boundary conditions in the case of a continuous foundation uplifting from the soil, can easily be taken into account by setting up an iterative procedure where the supposed algorithm is used. In this way, this non-linear problem is linearized. The contact portion and new stiffness matrix of the element partially supported by soil media can be identified without having a serious difficulty in each step of the iteration procedure.

The fourth chapter of this study mainly outlines two computer programs which are developed called as LLA-3D & IBS-3M. Both of them are executed in a batch program structure and coded in QBASIC programming language. Either elastic or any kind of linearized inelastic analysis can be performed by means of these computer programs.

LLA-3D consists of five independent programs called as LPRO, STIF, RIMAT, LSOLVE, FORCE. Mainly, this program collects the condensed lateral stiffness matrices performed by RIMAT in order to obtain the system stiffness matrix of the irregular three dimensional structure. Then, the set of lateral equilibrium equations is solved by LSOLVE and unknown lateral story displacements are obtained. Using these displacements, the rest of the unknowns such as rotational and axial displacements is computed by the common routine FORCE.

IBS-3M consists of six independent programs called as PRO, STIF, SOLVE, DYNAPRO, FORCE, IFDR. Non-linear analysis of a planar substructure or a planar structural system which represents a three dimensional structure is carried out this program.

Iterative calculations in the element level according to proposed algorithm are done in the program of STIFF commonly used by IBS-3M and LLA-3D.

The period values and mode shapes of structure are determined the program DYNAPRO.

The special routine IFDR deals with all kinds of nonlinearities at element level. Each section of element type substructures is checked to get the new fictitious rigidities in each step. 

Special attention has been given to save the memory capacity of computer. Namely, all two dimensional symmetric matrices of the formulation are replaced by one dimensional arrays so that maximum benefit of memory usage has been achieved. The general algorithm presented here can easily be applied to parallel or distributed computational techniques.

Several kinds of numerical examples have been given in the fifth chapter of this study.

The first example indicates the effectiveness of the proposed method developed for three dimensional irregular framed structures subjected to lateral loads. For this purpose, a four-story, four-bay in X direction, three-bay in Y direction three dimensional structural system has been chosen and this system has been analyzed according to two different lateral loading case. In order to research the effectiveness of the irregularities such as in plane and view irregularities and the in-plane deformations in slabs, on the end forces and displacements , six different cases are considered and analyzed. The results have been checked by the structural analysis program called as SAP90. The accuracy achieved by means of this method is very high.        

The effectiveness of supposed algorithm for element type structures has also been checked in the numerical examples. For this purpose, the examples in which the element stiffness and loading matrices can be compared by closed solutions in the literature and also the examples which the effectiveness of the algorithm has been shown in the cases that closed solutions are not existing are examined. Moreover, there are the examples in which eigenvalue problems are also solved and compared by the closed solutions.

The numerical examples related to planar structures or substructures consist of two groups. In the first group of examples, the planar systems which behave linearly due to material, soil properties, geometrical changes and boundary conditions have been solved. In the second group, a five-story steel frame non-linear due to material, a pile example non-linear caused by material and geometrical changes and a non-linear pile example due to soil properties are solved.

The sixth chapter covers the conclusions. The basic features of the proposed method and algorithm, the some properties of developed programs and the evaluation of numerical investigations are presented in the following steps:

i- Computers having low memory and simple computer programs for planar structures can effectively be utilized to analyze the three dimensional irregular framed structures subjected to mainly lateral static loads. Furthermore, using of substructuring technique and only one of the similar substructures reduces the required memory and computation time. 

The number of unknowns of a standard three dimensional analysis is 6xr where r indicates the number of nodes. Using proposed method, this number can be reduced to lx (m+n) where l, m, n are the number of stories, the number of vertical planar substructures in X direction and the number of vertical planar substructures in Y direction, respectively.

ii- All the two dimensional nxn symmetric matrices are substituted by one dimensional arrays containing only the elements from upper triangular portion. Namely the dimensions of these arrays are only (n+1)xn/2 instead of nxn. Thus, the main memory has effectively been utilized. In other words, relatively bigger structures can also be analyzed in small computers.

iii- Openings in the slabs and / or in the shear walls can be considered easily. Sometimes their effects on the overall structural behavior and on the fields of internal forces are not negligible.

The achieved accuracy by means of the proposed procedure is very high. The well-known computer program SAP90 has been used for having reliable comparisons.

iv- All kinds of irregularities on the element level are satisfactorily taken into account by means of the proposed algorithm based on conjugate beam theorem. Very few iterations are needed to achieve a reasonable accuracy. From engineering point of view, if the intervals are chosen as 1 meter  then a relative accuracy at the order of 1E-3 approximately can be obtained and if the intervals reduced to 1/4 of it then the relative accuracy  rises up to 1E-7 approximately. Shortly it can be specified that the required accuracy is not strongly dependent on the number of section and interval. The algorithm is a stable procedure as well even though the successive iteration procedure performed is very close to the stability load of the element or when it is nearby the resonance frequencies. But it has to be noticed that in several cases such as the elements supported by elastic soil media have the characteristic length of  gl=2.3, the number of iterations necessary for a specified accuracy becomes very high. This case occurs in the regions where discontinuities are expected. The easiest way of overcoming this difficulty, is to divide the element to independent elements.

v- Boundary non-linearity can easily be taken into account setting up an successive iterative procedure. Specified accuracy is obtained after 3-4 iterations.

vi- Distributed plastic deformations are easily taken into account in the supposed algorithm. A relative accuracy at the order of 1E-5 in the element level can be achieved after 6-7 successive iterations at a certain load level which is even very close to the collapse load parameter of the structure.

vii- As it is expected, ultimate load capacities determined according to the assumptions that plastic deformations are distributed or accumulated are very close to each other in the case of steel structures. The structure has collapsed due to excessive displacements and reducing rigidities in a high load level.  

viii- Plastic deformations are getting more distributed as it is achieved in the case of laterally loaded reinforced concrete pile or  short column  with single curvature.  

ix- The non-linearity due to geometrical changes is also taken into account in the analysis of the pile. The pile has been collapsed by rupturing in a section before buckling load parameter.

x- The non-linear behavior of soil and the group effect among the piles in a pile group are also taken into consideration by proposed algorithm. 

After having had all the explanations above, one can easily conclude that the following contributions to the present knowledge have been done by this research work:

The method presented is utilized to compose the results of the individual analyses of two dimensional substructures which can also be executed by different computers with parallel processor as well. The proposed method is a versatile tool for the lateral load analysis of three dimensional framed structures with several kinds of irregularities. Among those irregularities, the in-plane deformations of slabs with or without big openings and any kind of cross-sectional variations can be stated.

The number of unknowns is not increased by this method. All the irregularities associated with element are taken into account on the element level preparatory works referring to a unified single algorithm. Utilizing that algorithm, it has been proven that tapered beams partially or fully in contact with soil can be handled according to the first and second order theories. All the numerical examples indicate a good convergence rate which is achieved both in the element and system level on the iterations for any kind of non-linearity.