Generation of spectrum-compatible acceleration time history for Nepal

Chaulagain, Hemchandra; Rodrigues, Hugo; Varum, Humberto; Silva, Vitor; Gautam, Dipendra

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Chaulagain, Hemchandra

Abstract(s)

The 25 April 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal caused severe structural damage in central Nepal, including the capital city Kathmandu. Both seismic vulnerability analysis of affected buildings and nonlinear time history analysis need increasing time history. However, no adequate records are available in Nepal, thus structural engineering practices follow Indian guidelines. The Nepal building code allows time history analysis along with the seismic coefficient and response spectrum methods, so nonlinear time history analysis can be used to assure adequate seismic safety. To fulfill the gap of recorded accelerograms, we developed artificial acceleration time histories considering the seismic hazard model of Chaulagain et al. (2015). We compared the synthetic accelerograms developed in this study with the records of Gorkha earthquake; the recorded maximum peak ground acceleration during the Gorkha earthquake showed comparable acquaintance only to the peak amplitudes of synthetic accelerograms generated for 300- and 475-year return periods.

Keywords

Artificial accelerogram Gorkha earthquake Spectral matching Kathmandu valley

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/12975

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Hemchandra Chaulagain; Hugo Rodrigues; Humberto Varum; Vitor Silva; Dipendra Gautam. Generation of spectrum-compatible acceleration time history for Nepal. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, Volume 349 (2017) no. 5, pp. 198-201. doi : 10.1016/j.crte.2017.07.001. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/articles/10.1016/j.crte.2017.07.001/