moving displacement based seismic design.
Prior force base design should not fail under displacement based design.
Displacement Based Design can be more Accurate and Economical.
DBD provisions have additional detailing requirements that should be followed.
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moving displacement based seismic design
1. MOVING TO DISPLACEMENT
BASED SEISMIC DESIGN
Johann Aakre, PE, SE
Michael Baker International
Chicago Bridge Department Manager
ArDOT TRC
May 25th, 2022
2. INTRODUCTION & LEARING OBJECTIVES
FORCE BASED
VS.
DISPLACEMENT
BASED DESIGN
IDOT DBD
POLICY
TRANSITION
IDOT DBD
EVALUATION
FINDINGS
APPLICATION
OF
DISPLACEMENT
BASED DESIGN
PRINCIPLES
Learning Objectives
3. FORCE BASED VS. DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN
Force-Based Design
• Period of structure,
seismic acceleration based
on elastic behavior
• Design moments modified by
Response Modification
Factors (R-Factors) to
indirectly account for
damage
• R-Factors based on broad
parameters such as
“multiple column bent” or
“Wall-type pier” that do
not account for sizes,
reinforcement ratios, etc.
• End result: Final design
is very rough estimate
(Picture Credit (BergerABAM/Lee Marsh) – 2017 COBS presentation)
4. FORCE BASED VS. DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN
Displacement Based Design
• Period of structure and
seismic acceleration based
on inelastic behavior
• No R-Factors required
• More exact estimation of
seismic loads and more
accurate design
• Accurate approximation of
damage allows for
performance-based design
(Picture Credit (BergerABAM/Lee Marsh) – 2017 COBS presentation)
5. FORCE BASED VS. DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN
Performanced-Based Design
• Bridge Performance Level
based on Operational
Classification
• Start with desired
performance and work design
to deliver that.
• Ability to achieve
additional or enhanced
criteria and better control
of outcomes.
7. ARKANSAS SEISMIC HAZARD
M7.5 in 1811 (New Madrid)
M6.0 in 1843 in Marked Tree
M5.0 in 1976 – Poinsett County
34 of 75 Counties Included with
NMSZ Catastrophic Planning Area
8. FORCE BASED VS. DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN
Current Design Paradigm
• All western states use DBD
• All states in New Madrid
Seismic Zone except IL,
KY, and AR use DBD
• Arkansas and Illinois
currently switching to
DBD.
9. FORCE BASED VS. DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN
More Accurate and Economical
• In FBD, wall-type piers
have R-factors of 1.5
or 2.0
• Actual reduction in
stiffness could be more
like factor of 4
• This results in much
lower stiffness, higher
periods, lower loads
• End result: smaller
members, less piles,
smaller footings
10. FORCE BASED VS. DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN
Allows for use of Future Guide Specifications
• Guidelines for
Performance-Based
Seismic Design
• Specifications for
Seismic Isolation
Design
11. IDOT’S SHIFT TO DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN
STEP 1:
EVALUATE EXISTING
BRIDGE DESIGN /
DETAILS
STEP 2:
DEVELOP UPDATED
POLICY AND
GUIDELINES
12. IDOT DBD – STEP 1 EVALUATION BRIDGES
Br 1
SN 016-1510
Br 2
SN 051-0075
Br 3
SN 014-0080
Br 4
SN 083-0067
Br 5
SN 080-0025
Total
Length
256’ 858’ 617’-unit 1
449’- unit 2
198’ 712’
# Spans 3 10 8 3 5
Abut.
Type
Semi-integral on
Steel H piles
Stub on
Steel H piles
Stub on
drilled shafts
Integral on
Steel H piles
Stub on
Steel H piles
Pier
Type
4 column with
crashwall on
pile cap
foundation
Pier Wall on
pile cap
foundation &
Pile Bent Wall
Piers
Drilled shaft
Bents with
web walls
Pile Bent
Wall Piers
Pier Walls on
pile cap
foundation
Skew 9°35’33” 0 30° 0 0
SDC A ->C C B B B
14. EVALUATION METHODOLOGY
• Use the same Seismic Hazard (Design Response Spectrum) from Original Bridges Design
• Life safety for the design earthquake event, 7% probability of exceedance in 75 years
• Low probability of collapse but may suffer significant damage and that significant disruption to
service is possible. Partial or complete replacement may be required.
• Use IDOT 3-Tier Seismic ERS
• Level 1 – Fusing Connections between Superstructure & Substructure
• Level 2 – Adequate Support Lengths
• Level 3 – Ductile or Elastic Substructure Response assuming anchor rods DON’T fuse
• AASHTO Guide Specifications for LRFD Seismic Bridge Design, 2nd Edition with current interims
(AASHTO Seismic)
• Equivalent static analysis (ESA)- single mode spectral or uniform load analysis
• Liquefaction/Lateral Spreading not considered
• Simplified Methods for Soil-Structure Interaction
16. DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN FLOWCHART
Special Steps for
SDC C
Unique to
displacement
based
Common Steps in
FBD and DBD
1. Seismic Proportioning
2. Effective Section Properties
3. Abutment Modeling
4. Foundation Modeling
5. Displacement Capacity
29. BRIDGE 4 EVALUATION RESULTS
PILE SLENDERNESS & DUCTILITY DEMAND
Limit for Essentially Elastic Member Limit for Ductile Member
Steel HP 10x42 12.02<12.86 12.02>10.33
Steel HP 12x53 13.79>12.86 13.79>10.33
Steel HP 12x63 11.75<12.86 11.75>10.33
Steel HP 14X73 14.46>12.86 14.46>10.33
Steel HP 14x89 11.95>12.86 11.95>10.33
30. BRIDGE 2 LOCATION & FEATURES
DESIGN CRITERIA
• SDC = C
Stub Abutment Pile Bent Wall PierWall Pier on Pile Cap
32. IDOT SEISMIC DESIGN POLICY NEXT STEPS
IDOT’s proposed 4 Step Policy Update Process
1. Seismic Details
2. Design Guidelines
3. Seismic Hazard
4. Performance Based Design
Guidance
Research
Refinement
Policy
Test Designs
Future Research...
Expansion
33. SEISMIC DESIGN POLICY NEXT STEPS
National AASHTO Policy Updates
1. Seismic Hazard
NEW MAPS Balloted this year.
2. Displacement Based
Design
Still Discussion, but trend will
be adoption
3. Performance Based
Design
Guidelines not Specifications
34. SEISMIC DESIGN POLICY NEXT STEPS – HAZARD
UPDATES
National AASHTO Policy Updates
This software is preliminary or provisional and is subject to revision
35. SEISMIC DESIGN POLICY NEXT STEPS – HAZARD
UPDATES
(HOT SPRINGS, AR)
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ws/designmaps/aashto-
2009.json?latitude=34.5095&longitude=-
93.0518&siteClass=D&title=Example
https://staging-
earthquake.usgs.gov/ws/nshmp/designmaps/aash
to-2023-conus/
2009 HAZARD
2023 HAZARD
Parameters: Longitude: 34.5095 | Latitude: -93.0518 | Site Class D
(Vs30 = 900 ft/s ~ 275 m/s)
36. CONCLUSIONS
DBD Conclusions
• Prior Force base designs should not “Fail” under
displacement based design.
• Displacement Based Design can be more Accurate and
Economical
• DBD provisions have additional detailing requirements
that should be followed
Thank you Intro
Name = Johann Aakre, Bridge Department Manager
Before presentation – Thank you to ArDOT. You’re staff are so welcoming to out of town presenters. I definitely felt that southern hospitality.
Read Slide Titles
FBD vs. DBD
DBD principles
Get into the work that MBI has been working on with IDOT on using DBD
FBD
Stiffness and Mass of Structure
Find our period
Find Csm
Apply Seismic Loading
Solve for forces (moments and shears)
Design elements with EE load combo with “Reduced” moments based on an “Assumed” level of ductility R-factors.
Works well, but we don’t know how much the structure is displacing and how much damage.
DBD
-Period is more in tune with the inelastic stiffness of the system.
R factors aren’t used.
Compare elastically analyzed displacement with displacement capacity based on a tolerable level of non-liner displacement or post yield behavior.
More accurate account of both Demand and design.
Allows for damage
Touch Briefly on PBD
This is the next step in refinement of seismic design.
Apply DBD principles, but the Displacement Capacity is set to an expected level of damage associated with the displacement and the design is worked to that.
Substantial research in column behavior. We understand:
Repair level associated with displacments
Fix it
Don’t just have to design for life safety, but an operational level based on owner performance needs.
Why?
Force Based may be easier and faster
Displacement based more accurate but more complicated
1 – Not standing here unless Arkansas was considering.
2 – Hazard is very similar to Illinois & highly influenced by the NMSZ
3 – Large events in last 200 years SDZ 2, 3, & 4
4 – Arkansas = high seismic state.
DBD is also the current Design Paradigm
Read slide
Now we don’t want to switch “Just because that’s what others are doing”
DBD can be more economical.
As example, consider Wall Type Pier
R-factor = 1.5 or 2 depending on aspect ratios
If properly detailed….Actual stiffness reduction could be more like 4.
This lower stiffness would result in:
Higher periods
Lower Csm / Loads
End Results = Smaller Members, less piles, smaller footings.
Read Slide
Now that I’m complete with DBD Commercial
Get into work that MBI has done with IDOT on DBD.
I’m not IDOT and don’t want any of this to be construed as me representing them, but we will share our experience working with them on this.
IDOT’s 1st Step = Evaluate Existing Bridges with DBD. See how they perform and how they were detailed. Michael Baker performed these evaluations.
IDOT’s 2nd Step, and where they are today, is develop updates to their policies based on DBD principles. We are helping as a peer reviewer.
For Evaluation, IDOT assigned MBI 5 “representative bridges”. Which are listed with Abutment/Pier/SDC
NOTE: In DBD we use SDC A, B, C, & D whereas FBD uses SZ 1, 2, 3, & 4. They are essentially the same.
READ TABLE
BR 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
DESIGN CRITERIA developed
1 – Follow the ERS Strategy in the IDOT Bridge Manual,
2 – But use AASHTO Seismic
Other References
Evaluation Methodology
Same seismic hazard - 7% probability in 75 years.
Same performance – life safety – low probability of collapse, but damage may be expected.
These are currently common between DBD and FBD.
All bridges were considered “Regular” – Equivalent Seismic Analysis….
Liq/Lat
Simple Methods for soil structure interaction.
No geotech involvement
As you get into the AASHTO Seismic Guide Specs, notice and emphasis on ERS.
This is important – highlights where you expect to have ductility in structure and what code requirements there are for that.
IDOT follows both Type 1 & Type 3 – Read
Discuss ERS’s
In ground hinging – Limited Ductility Response. Local Displacement ductility < 4.
AASHTO Seismic has flow charts to guide designers through the code.
*** What I hope people can get out of this is that several of the step/procedures are similar between DBD and FBD.
What I have highlighted in RED are more unique to AASHTO Seismic these are:
1.
2
3
4.
5
1 – Seismic Proportioning
For SDC D, but good practice for all bridges – want the relative stiffness of adjacent piers to be closer than 0.5.
If not, potential for
Increased damage in the stiffer elements,
An unbalanced distribution of inelastic response throughout the structure, and
Activation of other modes including twisting which can induce column torsion.
Effective Stiffness.
More guidance in AASHTO Seismic
Two methods.
Charts
Caltrans SDC – Equation for charts.
Moment Curvature Analysis.
As an example – on evaluation bridge 5 – this table show the difference.
LRFD – doesn’t give much guidance and says use Ieff/Ig = 0.5
Abutment Stiffness also better covered.
In longitudinal direction most of stiffness can come from abutment passive pressure.
Two things:
Know the height considered, seat vs. diaphragm
If seat, know if displacements are expected to engage the backwall.
Transverse Stiffness can be a bit more arbitrary.
Caltrans SDC recommends rather than a fixed pin, use about 0.5 of the adjacent Bent.
4 - Foundation Modeling
Depending on Kfound vs. Kpier, Foundation can have a larger effect.
Consider this multi-column pier with a crashwall on pile foundation
Columns are short, so pier is pretty stiff.
If foundation is modeled, overall:
Stiffness down,
Period up
Csm down
Displacements up, but also Displacement capacity includes pile displacement capacity which goes up.
5 and last point – Displacement Demand vs. Capacity.
You may think you need to do pushover analysis, and that’s complicated, BUT
SDC’s B & C– Empirical equations related to Column Height Ho and Column Aspect Ratio X.
These equations relate:
Concrete cover spalling
Column Ductility of 3
Columns < 15 ft, lower bound of 0.12Ho is used.
Important that if your pier does look like a single or multi-column bent, you will end up doing pushover analysis.
Now get into some findings or lessons learned from the evaluation bridges.
Read parameters
The behavior and displacement capacity of these piers were assessed both with the Empirical Equations and using pushover analysis.
The pushover analysis was completed by knowing:
Plastic hinge length
Elastic displacement of the crashwall
Yield displacement of the columns knowing the column yield curvature
Ultimate curvature of column and associated of the column plastic displacement through rotation of the plastic hinge.
Superposition of the yield and plastic displacements.
Longitudinal – very close to the empirical equation.
Transverse – Pushover provides more displacement capacity.
Detailing of the columns was also evaluated.
There is a provision in the AASHTO seismic that relates the maximum bar diameter to the column aspect length and diameter.
If the bars are too large, bond was found to not be sufficient for plastic hinge development.
Meeting this requirement can be challenging for short column as in this case it required ½” Dia. bars.
As a note: this requirement has been since been omitted from the Caltrans SDC.
Bridge 4 is shown here.
Integral Abutments
Wall Pile bent piers with Steel H Piles.
SDC B
For the ERS, because of the stiff abutment cap or stiff wall, in the transverse direction most of the ductility is provided by the piles BELOW ground.
According to AASHTO seismic, when in-ground hinging occurs, you are supposed to check for limited ductility response, in other words we don’t want to push the elements we can’t see too far.
Here we evaluated the displacement capacity just by looking at the yield displacement capacity of the pile.
If we know the pile yield moment My = FyS
And the stiffness for fixed fixed or fixed-free behavior.
And the expected length to the point of maximum moment relative to the pile depth of fixity.
We solve for the yield displacement delta Y based on P = K-Delta.
In the end the yield displacement capacity was larger than the displacement demand and the local ductility is less than both 4 and 1.
Steel H-piles there are also some detailing items.
If there is some expected ductility (displacement beyond yield), you have to check slenderness ratios allow this behavior so you don’t have local buckling.
We found that for 5 H-pile shapes, these ductility limits weren’t met, so need to be cognizant of this when selecting foundation type.
For Bridge 2
10 span bridge
Stub Abutments
Pile Bent Wall Piers
Wall Piers on Pile Cap
SDC C
For this bridge, all of the displacement checks were ok, but the main finding was in the detailing.
For walls/columns extending into footings, the column confinement is expected to extend into the footings.
This wasn’t part of the IDOT standard details.
After we finished the evaluations, IDOT spent some time to develop their draft policy documents.
MBI was then engaged and we are currently working on this as peer reviewers.
We assembled a team of 6 reviewers from high seismic states including Cali, Nevada, Kentucky, Illinois and South Carolina.
IDOT Steps for rolling out the policy are:
Update Seismic Details
Update Design Guidelines
Update Seismic Hazard (in line with 2023 AASHTO Maps)
Add performance based criteria.
A couple national updates on seismic design.
READ SLIDE
From what I heard, It’s expected that the 2023 proposed AASHTO Seismic hazard will be adopted this year at by COBS.
2023 AASHTO is based on 2018 USGS Seismic Hazard.
The items that are different include:
No longer 3 point hazard curve, but a 22 point hazard. This minimizes the plateau.
Site Factors are all built into the hazard.
There are also 8 site classes (A, B, BC, C, CB, D, E & F) rather than 6. They are also only based on shear wave velocity rather than blow count data which I know a lot of states use for site class determination.
For Hot Springs Arkansas, assuming Site Class D
Here is a comparison of the hazard.
Short period – less hazard
Long Period, about the same.
Read Slide
I would like to say thank you and also extend a thank you to IDOT. It has been a real pleasure to work with them on these projects.
With that I’ll open things up to any questions.