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Equivalent viscous damping for steel concentrically braced frame structures |
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| Authors: | K K Wijesundara R Nascimbene T J Sullivan |
| Institution: | 1. European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (ROSE School), IUSS, Via Ferrata 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy 2. European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE), Via Ferrata 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy 3. Department of Structural Mechanics, Universita?? degli Studi di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy |
| Abstract: | The direct displacement based seismic design procedure utilises equivalent viscous damping expressions to represent the effect of energy dissipation of a structural system. Various expressions for the equivalent viscous damping of different structural systems are available in the literature, but the structural systems examined in the past have not included concentrically braced frame structures. Thus, this study describes the development of an equivalent viscous damping equation for concentrically braced frame structures based on the hysteretic response of 15 different single storey models. Initially, equivalent viscous damping is calculated based on the area based approach and then corrected for the earthquake excitation. An iterative procedure is adopted to calibrate the equivalent viscous damping expression to the results of inelastic time history analyses using a number of spectrum-compatible real accelerograms. From the results of this research, a new damping expression is developed as a function of the ductility and the non dimensional slenderness ratio. |
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