Current building codes aim to ensure the acceptable performance of structures implicitly.Because these provisions are empirically developed for low-to medium-rise buildings, their applicability to high-rise building warrants further investigation. In this paper, the effect of design drift limit on the seismic performance of reinforced concrete dual high-rise buildings is considered.Nine buildings are designed for 3 drift limits: the code limit (i.e., 2%), one that is lower than the code limit (i.e., 1.5%), and one that is higher than the code limit (i.e., 3%). For each drift limit, buildings of 3 heights (20, 25, and 30 stories) are designed. Finite element models are constructed in OpenSees, and incremental dynamic analysis is performed. The results are used to develop probabilistic seismic demand models, where model parameters are determined using maximum likelihood estimation to incorporate equality and censored data. Reliability analysis using probabilistic demand models is conducted to derive seismic fragility and demand hazard curves. In addition, the collapse performance of the drift limits is evaluated using the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) P695 procedure. The study results show that the design drift limit affects the building's seismic performance, and the effect depends on the performance level considered.Moreover, from a structural integrity perspective, a larger design drift limit does not induce a significantly higher risk and might yield a more cost-effective design.
KEYWORDSdesign drift limit, high-rise structures, incremental dynamic analysis, performance-based earthquake engineering, probabilistic models, reliability analysis
| INTRODUCTIONThe minimum height of a structure to be considered as a high-rise building varies from 10 stories to 60 m. The number of buildings with a height of 200 m or more has increased by 392% in the last 15 years. In 2015, 106 of these structures were completed, which was a new world record. [1] The significant social and economic impacts of recent earthquakes [2,3] and the worldwide surge in high-rise construction have drawn attention to the challenges of the design and assessment of tall buildings. [4,5] Three major issues in the application of current building codes for the design of tall buildings are• The current codes do not explicitly quantify performance due to their empirical nature.• Seismic design coefficients (e.g., response coefficient, R, and amplification factor, C d ) are used to relate elastic design to inelastic responses.However, because these coefficients are primarily calibrated for low-to medium-rise buildings based on engineering judgment, [6] they may not be suitable for high-rise buildings.• Common codes are developed to provide design requirements for general structures rather than a specific class of structures. Therefore, following the same design procedures could yield structures with different performance. For example, ASCE 7-10 (and earlier versions) [7] allows the same drift limits for high-rise structures as for low-and me...
