PEER Structural Performance Database
User’s Manual
(Version 1.2)
Michael Berry
University of Washington
Myles Parrish
University of Washington
Marc Eberhard
University of Washington
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
University of California, Berkeley
January 2004
(Rev. July 2013)
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Table of Contents
LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................................ ii
LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................................................ iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...........................................................................................................................iv
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 1
CHAPTER 2: COLUMN PROPERTIES ................................................................................................... 3
2.1 MATERIAL PROPERTIES ................................................................................................................. 3
2.2 COLUMN GEOMETRY .................................................................................................................... 4
2.3 CONFINEMENT DETAILS ................................................................................................................ 6
2.4 TEST CONFIGURATION .................................................................................................................. 6
CHAPTER 3: TEST RESULTS ................................................................................................................. 9
3.1 FAILURE CLASSIFICATION ............................................................................................................. 9
3.2 FORCE-DISPLACEMENT DATA ..................................................................................................... 10
3.3 EFFECT OF AXIAL LOAD ............................................................................................................. 11
3.4 OBSERVED DAMAGE ................................................................................................................... 14
CHAPTER 4: CHARACTERISTICS OF AVAILABLE DATA ............................................................ 16
4.1 DISTRIBUTION OF KEY COLUMN PROPERTIES ............................................................................. 16
4.2 CALCULATED ACI NOMINAL FLEXURAL CAPACITY ................................................................... 20
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................................. 21
APPENDIX A: SUMMARY OF TESTS OF RECTANGULAR-REINFORCED COLUMNS ................... 22
APPENDIX B: SUMMARY OF TESTS OF SPIRAL-REINFORCED COLUMNS ................................... 27
APPENDIX C: STRUCTURE OF XML DATA ......................................................................................... 30
APPENDIX D: COLUMN TEST REFERENCES....................................................................................... 33
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List of Figures
Figure 2.1: Confinement Types ...................................................................................................... 7
Figure 2.2: Column Test Configurations ........................................................................................ 8
Figure 3.1: Failure Classification Flowchart ................................................................................ 10
Figure 3.3: Definition of Displacement Preceding Damage State ................................................ 15
Figure 4.1: Distribution of Column Depth .................................................................................... 17
Figure 4.2: Distribution of Column Aspect Ratio ......................................................................... 18
Figure 4.3: Distribution of Axial-Load Ratio ............................................................................... 18
Figure 4.4: Distribution of Longitudinal-Reinforcement Ratio .................................................... 19
Figure 4.5: Distribution of Transverse-Reinforcement Ratio ....................................................... 20
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List of Tables
Table 2.1: Material Properties......................................................................................................... 4
Table 2.2: Column Geometry ......................................................................................................... 5
Table 2.3: Cross-Section Classifications ....................................................................................... 5
Table 2.4: Confinement Details ...................................................................................................... 6
Table 2.5: Confinement Details ...................................................................................................... 7
Table 3.1: Failure Mode Codes ....................................................................................................... 9
Table 4.1: Column Property Statistics .......................................................................................... 17
Table 4.2: Summary of Calculated Flexural Capacities ............................................................... 20
Table A.1: Summary of Tests of Rectangular-Reinforced Columns ............................................ 23
Table B.1: Summary of Tests of Spiral-Reinforced Columns ...................................................... 27
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Acknowledgements
The database described in this report builds on the work of Dr. Andrew Taylor, Dr.
William Stone and other researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) (Taylor and Stone, 1993, Taylor et al., 1997). The data provided by these researchers
formed the core of this database.
As part of their MSCE thesis research at the University of Washington, Amit Mookerjee
(1999), Myles Parrish (2001), Haili Camarillo (2003) and Michael Berry (2003) expanded that
database and developed the University of Washington website
(http://www.ce.washington.edu/~peera1/). The authors greatly appreciate the contributions of
Debra Bartling. Working under the supervision of Professor Jack Moehle, Ms. Bartling created
the searchable website located at http://nisee.berkeley.edu/spd/.
It would have been impossible to assemble this database without the generous assistance
of numerous researchers who donated their time and data. Appendix D of this report contains a
list of the test references. These references provide many details that are not included in the
column database, and wherever possible, they should be cited directly, in addition to this report.
Support of this work was provided primarily by the Earthquake Engineering Research
Centers Program of the National Science Foundation, under Award Number EEC-9701568
through the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER).
