中等跨径混凝土连续梁桥是一种广泛应用的桥梁结构形式,地震作用下该类桥梁的破坏主要体现在桥墩、桥台和支座位置。以一典型多跨连续梁桥为例,考虑材料强度和上部结构容重等不确定性因素的影响,运用拉丁超立方抽样方法建立了10个桥梁样本。根据场地类型从PEER强震数据库中选取100条地震波来模拟地震动的不确定性,并与10个桥梁样本随机组合。对结构进行非线性时程分析后得到结构的响应,并分别定义了各构件的四种极限破坏状态,采用传统可靠度概率方法形成了桥墩、桥台和支座的易损性曲线,并运用联合失效概率方法研究了结构的系统易损性。研究结果表明:该类型桥梁的支座比墩柱、桥台更容易遭受地震破坏,尤其是桥台处活动支座;采用一阶界限法和二阶界限法计算的结构系统失效概率均大于各构件破坏概率,显然用结构系统易损性来评估桥梁抗震性能更为合理。
Medium span multi-span continuous RC bridges,whose main failure modes are reflected in piers,abutments or bearings,are widely used in China.One common continuous girder bridge is taken as the analytical model;uncertainties in the strength of material and the weight of superstructure are considered,then a set of 10 nominally identical but statistically different bridge samples are developed for the bridge using the Latin hypercube sampling technique.100 earthquake records are chosen from PEER according to the site condition of bridge to account for the uncertainty of ground motions,and then combined randomly with 10 bridge samples.Then,a series of nonlinear time-history analyses are conducted to obtain the responses of structure,and four limit states for different components are defined.vunerability curves of piers,abutments and bearings are obtained utilizing the traditional reliability and probability tools,and furthermore the system vulnerability of structure is studied using the joint failure probability method.The results show that the bearings,especially the active bearing of abutment,are more vulnerable than the column piers and the abutments.The failure probability of bridge system,which is calculated using the first-order and the second-order reliability principles,is larger than those of structural members,indicating that it is more reasonable to assess the seismic behavior of bridge basing on the system vulnerability.