Fezayil Sunca
Ahmet Can ALTUNIŞIK
Abstract
This paper investigates the seismic behavior of historical timber bridges subjected to near-fault and far-fault ground motions. For this purpose, Buzlupınar Bridges located in the East Black Sea Region in Turkey were selected as an application. Acceleration records recorded in same event were applied to the orthogonal and vertical directions of the bridge. As a result of dynamic analysis, the distributions of maximum amplitudes under acceleration records with near-fault and far-fault were comparatively presented. All numerical results indicated that both the near-fault ground motions and their far-fault counterparts were played major roles in terms of seismic responses of selected historical timber bridge.
Keywords
Dynamic analysis, Far-fault record , Near-fault record, Timber bridge.
