effect of near and far field records on seismic fragility of industrial chimneys

As a critical component of industrial plants the acceptable seismic performance of chimneys during strong earthquakes is important. the structure has been studied by the previous researchers to investigate the nonlinear behavior duringearthquakes, probabilistic seismic vulnerability and collapse mechanism (wilson et al., 2003; changdong zhou et al., 2014; huang et al., 2004). openings in the structure have shown to increase the seismic vulnerability. collapsing the 115 m high chimney in tupras refinery during the 1999 kocaeli earthquake, several researches was performed to investigatethe seismic performance of this type of structures in earthquakes (huang et al., 2004; sezen and whittaker, 2004).