Abstract:In order to study the vulnerability of the RC frame structure under the action of mainshock-aftershocks, a typical six-story RC frame structure is taken as an example. Based on the incremental dynamic analysis and vulnerability analysis, the transcendental probability of the RC frame structure under different performance states under different mainshock-aftershocks effects is compared and analyzed. According to the site conditions, 10 seismic records have been selected as the seismic input, the response spectrum acceleration is used as the intensity measure (IM), and the maximum interlayer displacement angle is used as the damage measure (DM), respectively. The IDA curve cluster is analyzed by quantization. A probabilistic seismic demand model is established based on the seismic intensity measure, and the vulnerability analysis of the frame structure is performed according to the defined structural performance level. The results show that the bidirectional earthquake and the main-aftershocks will increase the vulnerability index of the structure compared with the one-way mainshocks. When the structure encounters an earthquake intensity Sa(T1,5%) =0.5g, the upper limit, average value, and lower limit of the vulnerability index caused by aftershocks increase by 6.3%, 8.5% and 11.5%, respectively. Compared with the one-way mainshocks, the increase of vulnerability index caused by two-way earthquake is 15.5%, 20.1% and 32.5%, respectively.