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

Table 7

Maximum strain response for different frequency spectra (με).

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	64.09	59.21	−7.6%	181.28	192.27	6.1%	187.99	221.56	17.9%	211.80	482.19	127.7%
	P2	100.71	109.86	9.1%	538.96	502.95	−6.7%	650.05	580.46	−10.7%	1466.72	1416.06	−3.5%
	P3	96.44	97.66	1.3%	204.47	217.29	6.3%	229.50	247.20	7.7%	274.06	543.23	98.2%
	P4	95.83	62.87	−34.4%	175.79	164.19	−6.6%	185.55	198.98	7.2%	247.20	493.79	99.8%