Multiaxis Hybrid Simulation of Collapse Resistant Buildings with Ductile Soft Story Formed by Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Columns
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 149, Issue 6
Abstract
A widespread problem in regions of low to moderate seismicity is the failure of buildings with soft-story collapse mechanisms. A reliable approach to improve the design of such buildings is to use concrete-filled steel tube (CFT) columns to form a ‘ductile’ soft story to arrest damage at the first level. This can perform as an isolator to limit the damage and prevent it from spreading to the rest of the building. In this paper, the multiaxis hybrid simulation method is used to evaluate the three-dimensional response of CFT columns while they serve as part of a building developing ductile soft first story mechanism. For this purpose, the multiaxis substructure testing (MAST) system at Swinburne University of Technology was utilized to simulate realistically the time-varying multi-directional boundary forces generated by ground motions on the CFT columns. The circular and square cross-section shapes as the most popular type of CFTs were tested and the damage progression, global hysteretic behavior, and deteriorating mechanisms were studied. The obtained data were then used to conduct a fragility analysis to compute the risk of collapse. The results highlight the excellent performance of CFTs and their potential to construct low-damage collapse resistant buildings.
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Some or all data, models, or code generated or used during the study are available from the corresponding author by request.
Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge the support of the Smart Structures Laboratory at Swinburne University of Technology for the technical help and assistance in conducting the experiments.
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Volume 149 • Issue 6 • June 2023
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Received: Oct 11, 2022
Accepted: Jan 24, 2023
Published online: Mar 16, 2023
Published in print: Jun 1, 2023
Discussion open until: Aug 16, 2023
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Columns
- Concrete
- Ductility
- Earthquake engineering
- Earthquake resistant structures
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Forensic engineering
- Geotechnical engineering
- Hybrid methods
- Material failures
- Material mechanics
- Material properties
- Materials characterization
- Materials engineering
- Mechanical properties
- Methodology (by type)
- Steel columns
- Structural engineering
- Structural failures
- Structural members
- Structural systems
- Tubes (structure)
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