Energy-Based Seismic Design Methodology of SMABFs Using Hysteretic Energy Spectrum
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 146, Issue 2
Abstract
Superelastic shape memory alloys (SMAs) have inherent properties of complete recovery of large deformation and satisfactory energy dissipation under cyclic loadings. Such properties have attracted wide attention within the earthquake engineering community, especially for the perspective of developing self-centering (SC) structures. SMA braced frames (SMABFs) have emerged in recent years as one of promising SC frames. This paper presents a seismic design methodology for SMABFs using the hysteretic energy spectrum. The underlying principle for the proposed design methodology is that both the total hysteretic energy and accumulated ductility demands in earthquake resistant structures are correlated with the maximum endured deformation. With the quantitative relationship, the seismic performance target, such as the maximum interstory drift ratio, can be readily achieved. The spectra of hysteretic energy and accumulated ductility demands are first constructed in this study for the single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems which represent the global behavior of SMABFs. The SDOF system based results were then utilized for the development of an iterative design procedure for multistory SMABFs. Both 3- and 6-story SMABFs are designed for representative low-to-medium rise building structures and subjected to a suite of earthquake ground motions scaled to the design basis earthquake (DBE) and maximum considered earthquake (MCE) seismic hazard levels. Computational simulation results show that the designed SMABFs satisfy the performance target very well. The proposed methodology is demonstrated to be effective and efficient for seismic design of SMABFs, but could also shed light on other SC structures.
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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 [Figs. 1(b) and 5–18].
Acknowledgments
The first author acknowledges the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51808317), Excellent Experts Program of Beijing University of Technology (Grant No. 004000514119053) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (Grant No. ZR2017BEE004). However, any opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations presented in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors. Finally, yet importantly, the authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their careful evaluations and insightful comments that helped improve the paper.
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Received: Dec 3, 2018
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Published online: Dec 13, 2019
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