• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.717-732
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• 2011

Nonlinear dynamic analysis and evaluation of eccentric braced steel frames (EBF) equipped with friction damper (FD) is studied in this research. Previous studies about assessment of seismic performance of steel braced frame with FD have been generally limited to installing this device in confluence of cross in concentrically braced frame such chevron and x-bracing. Investigation is carried out with three types of steel frames namely 5, 10 and 15 storeys, representing the short, medium and high structures respectively in series of nonlinear dynamic analysis and 10 slip force values subjected to three different earthquake records. The proper place of FD, rather than providing them at all level is also studied in 15 storey frame. Four dimensionless indices namely roof displacement, base shear, dissipated energy and relative performance index (RPI) are determined in about 100 nonlinear dynamic analyses. Then average values of maximum roof displacement, base shear, energy dissipated and storey drift under three records for both EBF and EBF equipped with friction damper are obtained. The result indicates that FD reduces the response compared to EBF and is more efficient than EBF for taller storey frames.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.429-437
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 비선형 정적해석 및 동적해석을 이용하여 가새골조의 연쇄붕괴 저항능력을 평가하였다. 모두 아홉 개의 서로 다른 가새 형태를 고려하였으며, 모멘트골조의 해석 결과와 비교하였다 비탄성 정적해석 결과에 따르면 현행 기준에 따라 설계된 저층 가새골조는 1층 중앙에 위치한 기둥이 제거될 경우 연쇄붕괴 저항성능 기준을 만족하는 것으로 나타났으나 대부분 취성적인 파괴모드를 나타내었다. 특히 압축가새가 좌굴한 후 인장가새가 인장력을 발휘하기 전에 취약한 층의 기둥이 좌굴하는 것으로 나타냈다. Inverted-V형 가새골조의 경우가 가장 연성도 면에서 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 동적 해석 결과에 따르면 모든 가새골조는 중앙에 위치한 기둥이 제거될 경우 붕괴되지 않으며, 동일한 규모의 모멘트 저항골조에 비해 진동이나 처짐량이 작은 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.179-186
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• 2013

가새골조는 가장 경제적이고 효과적인 내진시스템 중 하나로써 자주 사용된다. 그러나 중앙부 거셋플레이트를 포함하는 다층 X-형 가새골조의 경우, 실무에서 뿐만 아니라 거동에 대한 연구도 드물다. 그 결과, 이 시스템의 내진 성능과 접합부 설계에 미치는 영향은 아직 잘 알려져 있지 않다. 이 영향을 파악하기 위해 선행해석연구가 수행됐고 이 선행연구는 실험체 제작 전에 수행되어 시스템 거동을 예측하고 효과적인 디자인을 위해 수행되었다. 선행연구 결과를 보면 중앙부(X 교차부) 거셋플레이트와 코너부 거셋플레이트의 거동이 상당히 다르다는 것을 알 수 있다. 선행연구의 결과로 결정된 실제크기의 2층 중심가새골조 실험체의 실험결과와 해석결과를 요약하였고 그 결과를 비교하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.375-388
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• 2022

Nibellen structural system is a novel resilient bracing system based on the application of Bellville disks and Nitinol rods. The cyclic behavior of Nibellen assembly was obtained, and the design equations were developed based on the available literature. Seismic performance of the system was then studied analytically. Two groups of buildings with different lateral force resisting systems were designed and studied: one group with the Nibellen system, and the other with the special concentrically braced frame system. Each building group consisted of 5-, 10-, and 15-story buildings. The Design-Base-Event (DBE) and Maximum Considered Event (MCE) were considered as the seismic hazard, and a suite of seven ground motions were scaled accordingly for response history analyses. Finally, the resiliency of the buildings was studied by obtaining the functionality curve of the buildings before and after the seismic event. The construction cost of the 5-story building with Nibellen bracing system increased but the post-earthquake cost decreased significantly. The application of Nibellen system in the 10- and 15-story buildings reduced both the construction and repair costs, considerably. Resiliency of all the buildings was improved when Nibellen system was used as the lateral force resisting system.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.455-466
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• 2022

Despite the considerable lateral stiffness and strength of the Concentrically Braced Frame (CBF), it suffers from low ductility and low seismic dissipating energy capacity. The buckling of the diagonal members of the CBF systems under cyclic loading ended up to the shortcoming against seismic loading. Comprehensive researches have been performing to achieve helpful approaches to prevent the buckling of the diagonal member. Among the recommended ideas, metallic damper revealed a better success than other ideas to enhance the behavior of CBFs. While metallic dampers improve the behavior of the CBF system, they increase constructional costs. Therefore, in this paper, a new steel damper with flexural mechanism is proposed, which is investigated experimentally and numerically. Also, a parametrical revision was carried out to evaluate the effect of thickness, slenderness ratio, angle of the main plate, and height of the main plates on the proposed damper. For the parametrical study, 45 finite element models were analyzed and considered. Experimental results, as well as the numerical results, indicated that the proposed damper enjoys a stable hysteresis loop without any degradation up to a high rotation equal to around 31% that is significantly considerable. Moreover, it showed a suitable performance in case of ductility and energy dissipating. Besides, the necessary formulas to design the damper, the required relations were proposed to design the elements outside the damper to ensure the damper acts as a ductile fuse.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제59권6호
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• pp.1121-1137
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• 2016

A large number of structure in the world were build with poor seismic details, with or without any lateral load resisting system like concentrically braced frames and steel plate shear walls. These structures can reveal deteriorating hysteretic behaviors with stiffness and strength degradation. Therefore, seismic retrofitting of such structures for drift control has vital importance. In this study a retrofit methodology has been developed, which involves diagonal bracing of steel frames with different cable arrangements. In the experimental and numerical program 5 different lateral load resisting system were tested and results compared with each other. The results indicated that multi-cable arrangements suggested in this study showed stable ductile behavior without any sudden decrease in strength. Due to the usage of more than one diagonal cable, fracture of any cable did not significantly affect the overall strength and deformation capacity of the system. In cable braced systems damages concentrated in the boundary zones of the cables and beams. That is why boundary zone must have enough stiffness and strength to resist tension field action of cables.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.749-776
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• 2016

In this paper, a Performance Based Design (PBD) approach is validated for multi-storey concentrically braced frame (CBF) systems. Direct Displacement Based Design (DDBD) procedure is used and validated by designing 4- and 12-storey CBF buildings. Nonlinear time history analysis (NLTHA) is used to check the performance of the design methodology by employing different accelerograms having displacement spectra matching the design displacement spectrum. Displacements and drifts obtained from NLTHA are found to fall within the design displacement limits used in the DDBD procedure. In NLTHA, both tension and compression members are found to be resisting the base shear, $F_b$, not only the tension members as assumed in the design methodology and suggested by Eurocode 8. This is the reason that the total $F_b$ in NLTHA is found to be greater than the design shear forces. Furthermore, it is found that the average of the maximum ductility values recorded from the time history analyses for the 4-and 12-storey buildings are close to the design ductility obtained from the DDBD methodology and ductility expressions established by several researchers. Moreover, the DDBD is compared to the Forced Based Design (FBD) methodology for CBFs. The comparison is carried out by designing 4 and 12-storey CBF buildings using both DDBD and FBD methodologies. The performance for both methodologies is verified using NLTHA. It is found that the $F_b$ from FBD is larger than $F_b$ obtained from DDBD. This leads to the use of larger sections for the structure designed by FBD to resist the lateral forces.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2009

파괴모드는 저항력과 비탄성 변형 능력의 저하를 일으키는 균열이나 파단으로 귀결된다. 특수중심가새골조의 잠재적 파괴모드는 가새의 균열이나 파단, 가새나 거싯 플레이트의 순단면 파단, 거싯 플레이트용접의 균열, 볼트의 전단균열, 블록전단파단, 그리고 거싯 플레이트의 좌굴 등을 포함하고 있다. HSS 튜브가새는 특수중심가새골조에 자주 사용되고, 가새의 순단면 파단은 거싯 플레이트가 가새로 삽입되는 홈의 끝부분에 가새의 순단면을 통해 발생한다. 이 파괴모드는 인장파괴모드로 분류되고 급격한 강도저하와 취성적인 거동을 보인다. AISC 디자인 규준에선 순단면 보강을 요구하고 있다 (AISC 2001). 이 논문에서, 순단면 보강의 필요성에 대해 논의한다. 먼저, 미국 버클리대학교에서 수행됐던 순단면 파단실험을 유한요소모델을 이용한 이 실험의 모델링을 통해 소개한다. 실제 골조에서의 순단면 파단의 가능성을 조사하기 위해, 홈이 있는 중심가새골조를 유한요소법을 이용 모델링 하고, 인장지배의 근거리지진 이력을 적용시킨다. 이는 이력이 순단면 파단의 가장 중요한 인자라는 이전 해석 결과에서 기인한 것이다. 순단면 보강의 필요성과 인장지배의 근거리지진 이력의 영향에 대해 조사한다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.383-392
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• 2019

Passive steel dampers have shown favorable performance in last earthquakes, numerical and experimental studies. Although steel dampers are more affordable than other types of damper, they are not economically justified for ordinary buildings. Therefore, in this paper, an innovative steel damper with shear yielding mechanism is introduced, which is easy to fabricate also can be easily replaced after sever earthquakes. The main goal of implementing such a mechanism is to control the possible damage in the damper and to ensure the elastic behavior of other structural components. The numerical results indicate an enhancement of the hysteretic behavior of the concentrically braced frames utilizing the proposed damper. The proposed damper change brittle behavior of brace due to buckling to ductile behavior due to shear yielding in proposed damper. The necessary relations for the design of this damper have been presented. In addition, a model has been presented to estimate load-displacement of the damper without needing to finite element modeling.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.589-599
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• 2019

Conventional buckling restrained braces used in concentrically braced frames are expected to yield in both tension and compression without major degradation of capacity under severe seismic ground motions. One of the weakness points of a standard buckling restrained braced frame is the low post-yield stiffness and thus large residual deformation under moderate to severe ground motions. This phenomenon can be attributed to low post-yield stiffness of core member in a BRB. This paper introduces a multi-core buckling restrained brace. The multi-core term arises from the use of more than one core component with different steel materials, including high-performance steel (HPS-70W) and stainless steel (304L) with high strain hardening properties. Nonlinear dynamic time history analyses were conducted on variety of diagonally braced frames with different heights, in order to compare the seismic performance of regular and multi-core buckling restrained braced frames. The results exhibited that the proposed multi-core buckling restrained braces reduce inter-story and especially residual drift demands in BRBFs. In addition, the results of seismic fragility analysis designated that the probability of exceedance of residual drifts in multi-core buckling restrained braced frames is significantly lower in comparison to standard BRBFs.