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Seismic design methodology for friction damped braced frames

  • Robert Levy
  • , Eduard Marianchik
  • , Avigdor Rutenberg
  • , Fred Segal

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the design of steel frames using friction damped slotted bolted connections (SBCs) in the diagonal braces. A dynamic model is developed to describe the behaviour of a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) steel frame that uses bilinear hysteretic behaviour for the damper. This model is generalized to MDOF systems. A novel algorithm for displacement reversal in the transition from slip to stick is presented. It uses numerical noise for its success. A design procedure that attains the stiffness of the individual braces and their elongation at the threshold of activation is then applied to a 10-storey steel frame. This design process is a two-phase iterative procedure that converges quite fast. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1569-1585
Number of pages17
JournalEarthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
Volume29
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2000
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • Bilinear hysteresis
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Friction dampers braced frames
  • Steel structures

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)

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