Abstract
This paper summarizes a number of key findings that affect the use of linear and nonlinear analysis procedures for the seismic evaluation of steel frame buildings with supplemental damping devices and in particular, buckling-restrained braces (BRBs) and nonlinear viscous dampers (NVDs). The assessment is based on a comparison of various engineering demand parameters (EDPs) with experimental data obtained from a series of full-scale shaking table tests of a five-story steel building equipped with BRBs and NVDs. It is shown that: (1) there is no clear advantage between three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) analyses in the prediction of the dynamic behavior of regular plan view steel frame buildings regardless of the damper type; (2) incorporating the brace and nonlinear viscous damper axial flexibility in the analytical model of the test structure with NVDs significantly improves the overall numerical predictions; and (3) the current effective damping ratio recommended by ASCE 41-13 as part of linear static procedures for the evaluation of frame buildings with BRBs or NVDs may not be conservative enough. A new performance-based design tool called performance-spectra (P-Spectra) is able to reliably predict the EDPs of interest. The P-Spectra tool is also able to validate the efficiency of various damper solutions on the dynamic performance of the test structure. It is demonstrated that P-Spectra can be employed to predict estimates of potential residual deformations that traditional linear and nonlinear static procedures cannot.
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Acknowledgments
The authors express their sincere thanks to the research team who conducted the test and to the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention for providing the experimental data for the needs of this paper. The Financial support from Fonds de recherche du Québec Nature et technologies (Grant No. 2013—NC-166845) for the doctoral studies of the first author at McGill University is also acknowledged.
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Volume 142 • Issue 6 • June 2016
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Received: Apr 3, 2015
Accepted: Nov 17, 2015
Published online: Feb 4, 2016
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