• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.299-322
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• 2013

In the case of seismic-resistant composite dual moment resisting and eccentrically braced frames, the current design practice is to avoid the disposition of shear connectors in the expected plastic zones, and consequently to consider a symmetric moment or shear plastic hinges, which occur only in the steel beam or link. Even without connectors, the real behaviour of the hinge may be different from the symmetric assumption, since the reinforced concrete slab is connected to the steel element close to the hinge locations, and also due to contact friction between the concrete slab and the steel element. The paper presents the results and conclusions of experimental tests on composite portal eccentrically braced frames and beam-to-column moment-resisting joints, carried out within the CEMSIG Research Centre of the Politehnica University of Timisoara, in order to check the validity of the assumption stated above. Reference steel and composite specimens with and without connectors in the plastic zones have been tested under monotonic and cyclic seismic type loading.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.59-68
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• 2009

안전하고 경제적인 내진설계를 위해서는 설계 초기단계부터 모멘트재분배와 부재소성변형을 고려하는 것이 바람직하다. 본 연구에서는 할선강성해석을 사용하여 각 부재의 재분배된 모멘트와 소성변형을 직접적으로 고려할 수 있는 내진설계방법을 개발하였다. 모멘트재분배에 의하여 발생된 비대칭 부재강성을 나타내기 위하여, 비강접 단부접합부를 갖는 보-기둥요소(NREC요소)를 사용하여 구조물을 모델링하였다. NREC요소에 사용되는 할선강성은 건물 및 부재의 요구연성도에 기반하여 결정하였다. 할선강성 구조모델에 대한 선형해석을 수행하여 내진설계를 위한 부재력과 소성변형을 구하였다. 본 연구에서는 할선강성해석을 모멘트골조와 이중골조의 내진설계에 적용하였고, 설계결과를 정밀한 비선형해석 결과와 비교하였다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.703-731
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• 2013

In order to verify the applicability of buckling restrained braces (BRB's) and fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) sheets to the seismic strengthening of a low-rise RC building having the irregularities of a soft/weak story and torsion at the ground story, a series of earthquake simulation tests were conducted on a 1:5 scale RC building model before, and after, the strengthening, and these test results are compared and analyzed, to check the effectiveness of the strengthening. Based on the investigations, the following conclusions are made: (1) The BRB's revealed significant slips at the joint with the existing RC beam, up-lifts of columns from RC foundations and displacements due to the flexibility of foundations, and final failure due to the buckling and fracture of base joint angles. The lateral stiffness appeared to be, thereby, as low as one seventh of the intended value, which led to a large yield displacement and, therefore, the BRB's could not dissipate seismic input energy as desired within the range of anticipated displacements. (2) Although the strengthened model did not behave as desired, great enhancement in earthquake resistance was achieved through an approximate 50% increase in the lateral resistance of the wall, due to the axial constraint by the peripheral BRB frames. Finally, (3) whereas in the original model, base torsion was resisted by both the inner core walls and the peripheral frames, the strengthened model resisted most of the base torsion with the peripheral frames, after yielding of the inner core walls, and represented dual values of torsion stiffness, depending on the yielding of core walls.