An Efficient Approach to Incorporate Soil-Structure Interaction Effects for Practicing Engineers

摘要

Soil-structure interaction (SSI) influences the many aspects of structure i.e. cost, safety, and serviceability. Therefore, it plays an important role in substantial development of any country where the devastating earthquakes have occurred repeatedly. SSI techniques have been come out as powerful methods to incorporate multiple degrees of freedom. But, the concerns of practitioners are paved in hectic efforts to incorporate SSI. Practicing engineers are facing many challenges to implement SSI practice due to difficult literature and time consumption. Therefore, the overall aim of this research program is to incorporate SSI practice in analysis and design of building structures. The goal of this study is to investigate, through literature research, the performance based assessment of SSI effects and identify an efficient method for practicing designers to incorporate SSI in analysis and design of structures. Thus, the documentation of development regarding SSI, preferably, in last five years was carried out. It is concluded that N2-SSI is an efficient and easy to adopt SSI method in which the soil effect is introduced on the nonlinear response of structure. This work will increase the awareness of SSI effects and convince practicing designers to incorporate SSI in their analysis and design of structures.