Seismic design and performance of steel concentrically braced frame buildings with dissipative floor connectors

M Paronesso, DG Lignos - Earthquake Engineering & Structural …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explores the use of sliding friction dampers (SFDs) as dissipative floor
connectors to mitigate higher mode effects and earthquake‐induced absolute acceleration …

Shaking table test of a 10‐story self‐centering tube building

Z Song, Y Zhou, Y Lu - Earthquake Engineering & Structural …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The severe damage of conventionally designed buildings and consequent socioeconomic
impacts after major seismic events have spurred the development of self‐centering systems …

Shaking table test and evaluation of a novel high-rise large span concrete cassette structure

ZP Chen, DC Feng, KJ Ma, G Wu - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper discusses the seismic performance of a novel high-rise large span concrete
cassette structure based on shaking table tests and finite element models (FEMs). A 1/8 …

Shaking table test and numerical simulation of a precast frame-shear wall structure with innovative untopped precast concrete floors

R Pang, Y Sun, Z Xu, K Xu, J Cui, L Dang - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
An innovative discretely connected precast concrete floor (DCPCF) was presented, in which
the adjacent precast concrete hollow or sandwich flat slabs were connected by mechanical …

Aseismic high-rise structure with visco-elastically connected shear-and flexural-subsystems

Y Xiang, M Wang, FF Sun, GQ Li - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
For a high-rise structure composed of a shear-and a flexural-type subsystem, its seismic
performance can be improved as the rigid link between the subsystems being replaced by a …

Comparing the performance of traditional shear-wall and rocking shear-wall structures designed using the direct-displacement based design approach

LF Aragaw, PM Calvi - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2020 - Springer
Reinforced concrete shear walls are widely used as lateral load resisting systems because
of their favorable characteristics that include high strength, stiffness, ductility and energy …

Design of RC joints equipped with hybrid trussed beams and friction dampers

P Colajanni, L La Mendola, A Monaco, S Pagnotta - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
The challenge of this research consists in the first attempt to apply a dissipative friction
connection to beam-to-column joints with semi-prefabricated Hybrid Steel-Trussed Concrete …

Force-based design method for force-limiting deformable connections in earthquake-resistant buildings

G Tsampras, R Sause - Journal of Structural Engineering, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
This paper proposes a force-based design method for force-limiting deformable connections
that are used to transfer seismic-induced horizontal forces from the floor diaphragms in …

Quasi-static and fatigue testing of earthquake-resilient steel joints with replaceable buckling-restrained links

Y Feng, Y Zhu, Q Jiang, X Chong, Y Liu, J Huang - Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper introduces the buckling-restrained concept into the design of traditional steel
beam-column joints to improve the seismic and resilience performance. The upper and …

Seismic performance of earthquake-resilient RC frames made with HSTC beams and friction damper devices

P Colajanni, L La Mendola, A Monaco… - Journal of Earthquake …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Seismic behavior of RC frames with hybrid steel-trussed concrete beams is affected by
panel zone damage due to a large amount of longitudinal reinforcement. Here the seismic …