Seismic Reduction Performance of Wrap Rope Connection Devices for Continuous Girder Bridges

Table 6

Maximum displacement for different frequency spectra (mm).

Peak acceleration (g)	Location	Qian An (I)			EL Centro (II)			Taft (III)			Tian Jin (IV)
		Without WRCD	With WRCD	Relative error	Without WRCD	With WRCD	Relative error	Without WRCD	With WRCD	Relative error	Without WRCD	With WRCD	Relative error
		1	2	(2 − 1)/1	1	2	(2 − 1)/1	1	2	(2 − 1)/1	1	2	(2 − 1)/1
0.4	P1	0.117	0.078	−33.4%	2.707	2.777	2.6%	2.653	3.355	26.4%	2.845	8.662	204.5%
	P2	0.161	0.349	117.4%	8.876	7.570	−14.7%	10.951	8.621	−21.3%	23.205	23.153	−0.2%
	P3	0.110	0.422	283.9%	2.505	3.333	33.1%	2.802	3.638	29.8%	3.652	10.057	175.4%
	P4	0.569	0.451	−20.8%	3.038	3.557	17.1%	4.319	4.255	−1.5%	3.686	10.796	192.9%