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A Kriging Metamodel with Adaptive Sampling for Seismic Evaluation of Podium Buildings

Applications 2023-01-31 v1

Abstract

In this paper, nonlinear time-history dynamic analyses of selected earthquake ground motions are conducted on designated wood-frame podium buildings and the resulting inter-story drifts are analyzed. We aim to construct a reliable region where performance-based seismic design criteria are met, such that a two-step analysis procedure can be used with high confidence. We develop a kriging metamodel with tailored adaptive sampling methods to achieve this goal in a computationally efficient manner. The input variables we consider are the normalized stiffness ratio and the normalized mass ratio of the podium building. We took a six-story wood frame built upon a one-story concrete podium as a case study for our methodology, where our results indicate that the two-step analysis procedure may be used with high confidence if its normalized stiffness ratio is at least 38 and its normalized mass ratio is between 0.5 and 1.5.

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@article{arxiv.2301.12302,
  title  = {A Kriging Metamodel with Adaptive Sampling for Seismic Evaluation of Podium Buildings},
  author = {Yuying Huang and Zhiyong Chen and Samuel W. K. Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.12302},
  year   = {2023}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures