| Blind Prediction Contest, 2007, was announced by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Japan. The goal was to improve the seismic performance of steel frames using numerical simulation. A full scale four story steel moment frame building was designed, constructed and tested to collapse on the largest three-dimensional shake table in Japan. A detailed numerical simulation of the building has been performed in this thesis to compare with the experimental data. The comparison indicated a fairly close prediction of most of the kinetic and kinematic parameters. The effect of damping parameters on numerical simulation methods are studied in this work. The thesis presents all the details of the simulations for the contest and some of the viscous damping studies made after the post test submission. This thesis also presents a comparative study of three different methods of simulation along with viscous damping parameter study. |
