Stiffness-Based Design for Mitigation of Residual Displacements of Buckling-Restrained Braced Frames
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 141, Issue 9
Abstract
Buckling-restrained braced frames (BRBFs) are often used as primary seismic force resisting systems to achieve the desired seismic performance of building frames. However, significant residual displacements of these systems may cause concerns on their postearthquake performance, especially under long duration earthquakes and strong aftershocks. Although backup moment frames (MFs) along with the BRBFs, referred to as dual systems, can be used to mitigate their residual interstory drifts, there is no design criterion on how to determine the section sizes in the MF for this purpose. In the research reported in this paper, a simple mitigation technique was developed, which relies on a stiffness-based design in which the residual interstory drifts can be effectively controlled by increasing the elastic story stiffness using column sections with a higher moment of inertia. Nonlinear time-history analyses were carried out on low-to-high rise BRBFs for a set of 20 design basis earthquake (DBE) level ground motions to evaluate their residual interstory drift response for both pinned and rigid beam-to-column connections. Based on these analytical results, a simple expression is also proposed for predicting the residual drift ratios of low-to-high rise BRBFs.
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Volume 141 • Issue 9 • September 2015
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Received: Feb 11, 2014
Accepted: Oct 10, 2014
Published online: Nov 20, 2014
Discussion open until: Apr 20, 2015
Published in print: Sep 1, 2015
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