Today is acche din (Good day) for us - seismic stress analysts in India as just an hour ago we experienced a seismic event in north east side of India!
Jokes apart, we pay scant notice to the excellent seismic code we have since 2002 in India!
In it due to height, amplification of seismic acceleration is there, which we are not following in non-nuclear fields in India. Here, we are considering loads & stresses due to earthquake 50% lesser than required, sometimes.
Say, for a coker overhead piping, seismic acceleration is considered same as the ground acceleration in static seismic analysis.
From forum members I wish to know how many of us consider this acceleration due to hight in seismic analysis in reality!
regards,
sam
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