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Strengthening of concrete structures with buckling braces and buckling restrained braces

  • Mazloom, Moosa (Department of Civil Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University) ;
  • Pourhaji, Pardis (Department of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Farash, Abbas Moosa (Department of Civil Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University) ;
  • Sanati, Amir Hossein (Department of Civil Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University)
  • Received : 2018.06.03
  • Accepted : 2018.08.28
  • Published : 2018.09.25
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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to strengthen concrete structures using buckling and non-buckling braces. Connection plates are modeled in three shapes including the effect of 1.5t hinge zone length, 2t one and without the zone (1.5t-CP, 2t-CP and WCP). According to the verification performed with ABAQUS software, the connection plates which are superior in ductility and strengthening are found. The results show adding steel braces in concrete moment frames increase the strength and stiffness of the structures up to about 12 and 3 times, respectively. The frame strength increased about 21 and 25 percent with considering the effect of 2t hinge length in connection plates compared to 1.5t-CPs and WCPs. Also the ductility of retrofitted frames with 2t-CP improved 2.06 times more than WCP ones. Thus, 2t-CP sample is the best choice for connecting steel braces to concrete moment frames for retrofitting them. Afterwards, optimum conditions for elemental coating in braces with no buckling are assessed. The length of concrete coatings could be reduced about 30 percent, and buckling did not occur. Therefore, the weight of restraining coating decreased, and its performance improved. It is worth noting that BRBs could be constructed with only steel materials, which have outer steel tubes too. In fact, only the square cross sections of the tube profiles are appropriate for removing the filler concrete, and the rectangular ones are prone to buckle around their weak axis.

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