ART 3.0 - Güralp Systems Ltd
ART 3.0 - Güralp Systems Ltd
ART 3.0 - Güralp Systems Ltd
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<strong>ART</strong><br />
25. number of absolute effective cycles (peak counting<br />
excluding non-zero crossings) in acceleration timehistory<br />
(Hancock & Bommer, 2005);<br />
26. number of equivalent effective cycles using userdefined<br />
damage exponent (peak counting excluding<br />
non-zero crossings) in acceleration time-history<br />
(Hancock & Bommer, 2005);<br />
27. number of absolute effective cycles (rainflow counting<br />
technique) in acceleration time-history (Hancock &<br />
Bommer, 2005);<br />
28. number of equivalent effective cycles using userdefined<br />
damage exponent (rainflow counting<br />
technique) in acceleration time-history (Hancock &<br />
Bommer, 2005);<br />
29. predominant spectral period (or frequency) defined by<br />
Rathje et al. (2004) as the period at which the<br />
maximum spectral acceleration (using user-defined<br />
damping level) occurs;<br />
30. mean period (or frequency) defined by Rathje et al.<br />
(2004) as:<br />
T m<br />
=<br />
∑ C 2 i<br />
1/ f i<br />
<br />
i<br />
∑<br />
i<br />
C i<br />
2<br />
where C i are Fourier amplitudes at frequencies f i ;<br />
31. smoothed predominant spectral period (or frequency)<br />
defined by Rathje et al. (2004) as:<br />
∑ T i<br />
ln[ SA T i<br />
i PGA ]<br />
T 0<br />
=<br />
∑<br />
i<br />
ln[ SAT i<br />
PGA ]<br />
for T i with SA/PGA≥ 1.2 where T i are periods at which<br />
the spectral accelerations SA are defined (using userdefined<br />
damping level);<br />
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