RESUMENSe presentan los resultados de cinco mediciones de vibraciones ambientales realizadas en tres distintos edificios de San José, Costa Rica. El objetivo principal fue el medir la mayor cantidad de periodos naturales en cada dirección de los edificios utilizando la técnica "peak-picking" con espectros de Fourier (EF) y funciones de transferencia (FT). También se calcularon los amortiguamientos modales para uno de los edificios por medio de la técnica de decaimiento aleatorio. Para los edificios estudiados, se concluye que las diferencias entre los periodos naturales calculados a partir de EF y FT son despreciables, así mismo para cada edificio, basta contar con dos puntos de medición, uno en el nivel inferior y otro en el superior para lograr identificar al menos cuatro periodos naturales. Para el caso del edificio de 28 pisos, se concluye que su nivel de operación no afectó la identificación de los periodos naturales. En el caso del edificio de 11 pisos, el avance constructivo provocó un cambio significativo en el periodo fundamental y amortiguamiento, únicamente para la dirección Norte-Sur. Para el edificio de 6 pisos se calibró un modelo matemático tomando en cuenta cargas gravitacionales reales, secciones no agrietadas de elementos estructurales, una rigidez infinita y restricción a la rotación en las conexiones viga-columna de todos los marcos.Palabras clave: vibraciones ambientales; edificios; periodo natural; frecuencia; dinámica AMBIENT VIBRATION TESTS ON THREE REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS OF 28, 11 AND 6 FLOORS ABSTRACTThe results from five ambient vibration tests performed on three different buildings in San José, Costa Rica, are presented. The main goal was to estimate as much natural periods as possible in both directions of the buildings using the peak picking technique with Fourier spectrums (EF) and transfer functions (FT). The damping was also estimated for one of the buildings using the random decrement technique. For the studied buildings, it is concluded that the differences of the natural periods estimated from EF and FT are negligible, also for each building, with just two measuring points, one in the bottom and the other on the top level, it is possible to identify at least four natural periods. For the 28 story building, it is concluded that its operational level didn't affect the natural period's identification. In the 11 story building, the construction progress caused a significant change in the fundamental period and its damping for the North-South direction. Finally, for the 6 story building a calibration of the mathematical model was perform taking into account the real gravitational loads, uncracked element sections, an infinite rigidity and a restriction to rotate on all frame beam-column connections.
In this article, we present a strong-motion database from earthquakes recorded by the Earthquake Engineering Laboratory at the University of Costa Rica. The database consists of 2471 three-component accelerograms from 155 digitally recorded events. It covers the last 20 yr of measurements, including records from the 5 September 2012 Mw 7.6 Nicoya earthquake. The engineering and seismological communities can use this data either to conduct new research or to improve seismic hazard studies in the region. A catalog is also available with metadata of each record containing several intensity measures from the ground-motion time histories.
AB4STRACT Costa Rica is located at the boundary of four tectonic plates where the regularity of destructive earthquakes highlights the necessity of seismic hazard estimations. This study contains the most recent Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA) for Costa Rica, calculated with the largest and the most updated earthquake database from both—the Earthquake Engineering Laboratory and the National Seismological Network of the University of Costa Rica. For the PSHA, we updated the seismicity parameters for the upper plate, subduction interplate, and intraslab tectonic domains, characterized the upper-plate zones by percentages of fault types, and used weighted ground-motion models for each of the tectonic domains. The resulted maps of peak ground acceleration (PGA) at return periods of 475 yr (PGA-475) and 2475 yr, as well as the spectral accelerations, show geographic trends that allow for the division of the country in four seismic hazard levels: (1) extremely high for the Nicoya, Osa, and Burica peninsulas, situated directly above the subduction interplate, where the PGA-475 could be 0.55–1.20g; (2) very high for most of the Guanacaste Province, where the PGA-475 may be 0.55–0.70g; (3) high for most of the country (∼41%) with PGA-475 values of 0.40–0.55g, including Central Costa Rica and the capital city of San Jose; and (4) moderate for the Talamanca Cordillera and Northern Costa Rica, with PGA-475 up to 0.40g. These ground-motion values are 0.1–0.6g higher than the previous PSHA for the Pacific peninsulas, Guanacaste, and the southeastern Caribbean. Further, hazard curves, uniform hazard spectra, and a hazard disaggregation indicate that the seismic hazard is lower but more complex in San Jose than in Liberia—the largest city in Guanacaste.
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