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El Centro Earthquake Data Analysis

The document summarizes an analysis of the response of a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) structural system to the 1940 El Centro earthquake. It describes importing acceleration data recorded from the earthquake, separating the data into time and acceleration components, plotting a spectrogram and power spectrum of the acceleration data, and modeling the displacement response of the SDOF system using the recorded ground acceleration as input.

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El Centro Earthquake Data Analysis

The document summarizes an analysis of the response of a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) structural system to the 1940 El Centro earthquake. It describes importing acceleration data recorded from the earthquake, separating the data into time and acceleration components, plotting a spectrogram and power spectrum of the acceleration data, and modeling the displacement response of the SDOF system using the recorded ground acceleration as input.

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El Centro Earthquake Data Analysis

Introduction
This application analyzes the response of a SDOF to the 1940 El Centro earthquake. It uses acceleration
data recorded from a seismograph located near the fault line

Import and Visualize Data from Seismograph


> restart :
with SignalProcessing : with plots :
> NS d ImportMatrix "elcentro_NS.csv", source = csv standard , datatype = float 8 ;
2688 x 2 Matrix
Data Type: float8
NS d
Storage: rectangular
Order: Fortran_order
Separate the data into time (in seconds) and acceleration (in g) components
> t_NS d NS .., 1 :
acc_NS d NS .., 2 :
Sample rate of data
1
> sr d
t_NS 2 Kt_NS 1
sr d 50.
Plot a spectrogram and power spectrum
> Spectrogram acc_NS, samplerate = 50, fftsize = 256, includepowerspectrum, colorscheme
= "zgradient", "SteelBlue", "black", red, white , markers = 0, 0.7, 0.85, 1
K20
Power (dB)
K30
K40
K50
K60
0.005 0.010 0.015 0.020 0.025
Frequency (kHz)

Plot the time history

> plot t_NS, acc_NS, view = default,K0.4 ..0.4 , labels = "Time (s)", "Acceleration (g)" , labeldirections

= horizontal, vertical , labelfont = Arial , axesfont = Arial , gridlines, size = 1200, 400 ,
236 240 241
background = ColorTools:-Color "RGB", , , , style = patchnogrid, thickness = 0
255 255 255
0.4
Acceleration (g)

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
10 20 30 40 50
Time (s)
K0.1

K0.2

K0.3

K0.4
Displacement Response of a SDOF
.. . 2
> eq d u C2 x$wn$u Cwn $u =K9.81 acc t :
2$Pi
> wn d :
Tn
where wn is the natural frequency, and Tn is the natural period of vibration.
> x d 0.02 :
Tn d 5 :
acc_NS
> acc d unapply CurveFitting:-Spline t_NS, , t, degree = 1 , t :
9.81
> res d dsolve eq, u 0 = 0, D u 0 = 0 , numeric, maxfun = 0 :

> odeplot res, t, u t , t = 0 ..50, labels = "Time s ","Displacement m " , labeldirections

= horizontal, vertical , labelfont = Arial , axesfont = Arial , size = 800, 500 , background
236 240 241
= ColorTools:-Color "RGB", , , , style = patchnogrid, thickness = 0, size = 800,
255 255 255

400
0.02
Displacement (m)

0.01

0
10 20 30 40 50
Time (s)

K0.01

K0.02
>

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