Abstract:
Study of seismic behavior of Zhutou Puzuo with “Ang” lays critical foundations for insight into the seismic performance of Yingxian Wood Pagoda. To explore deforming behavior and seismic performance of Zhutou Puzuo with “Ang”, two scaled models derived from Yingxian Wood Pagoda at 1∶3.7 were designed and manufactured. Low cyclic-reversed loading experiments under different vertical loads were carried out. Based on the analysis of hysteretic curve, of skeleton curve, and of equivalent viscous damping coefficient, the effects of different loads on the above relevant seismic behavior indexes were clarified as following: Increasing vertical load hardly to change deformation features of this kind of Puzuo, but it would result in much more asymmetric performance in hysteretic curve and remarkable improvement on all Puzuo's relative properties. The vertical load increased 3.7 times, the horizontal bearing capacity increased 2.2 times and 2.9 times in positive and negative directions, the initial stiffness increased 2.4 times, and the dissipated energy increased 3.0 times. In addition, raising vertical load changed the position where the initial slip occurred at early stage of test. But it changed neither mode of accumulating slip nor the weaken positions. However, the Puzuo's finial slip pattern remained similar, which mainly performed as slipping between two Huagongs. A simplified model for the displacement-bearing capacity of the Puzuo was proposed. The influence coefficients
βk and
βF of different vertical loads were obtained according to fit the data of these two tests, and the coefficients were able to modify the initial stiffness
k of the simplified skeleton curve model under different loads.