Overstrength of Displacement-Based Designed Eccentrically Braced Steel Frames

Document Type : Original Article

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1 MSc in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Malayer University

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Malayer University

Abstract

Direct Displacement-Based Design (DDBD) is a performance-based seismic design method that has been proposed and developed over the past two decades for RC frame structures, shear walls and bridges design. The aim of this study is to evaluate overstrength of EBFs with short, intermediate and long link beams designed according to the DDBD method. For this purpose, twelve EBFs with 3, 5, 9 and 12 stories having short, intermediate and long link beams designed using the DDBD method. To investigate the seismic behavior of the considered EBFs, it is first necessary to model properly the nonlinear cyclic behavior of link beams properly. In this regard, the macro-model developed and proposed by Richards was utilized in this study to simulate the nonlinear behavior of some tested link beams available in the literature. After validating the finite-element model, the seismic behavior of the considered EBFs was studied using nonlinear static analyses. The results show that the overstrength factors of the DDB designed EBFs are variable depending on their links length ratio and may even be less than the factor proposed in the DDBD method (i.e. 1.5). This factor was evaluated as 1.51, 1.37 and 1.19 for the investigated EBFs in this study with short, intermediate and long link beams, respectively.

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  • Receive Date: 21 June 2015
  • Revise Date: 31 October 2015
  • Accept Date: 15 December 2015

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