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Structural Engineering and Mechanics
  Volume 50, Number 1, April10 2014 , pages 001-017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2014.50.1.001
 


Response modification factor of the frames braced with reduced yielding segment BRB
Nader Fanaie and Ebrahim Afsar Dizaj

 
Abstract
    In this paper, overstrength, ductility and response modification factors are calculated for frames braced with a different type of buckling restrained braces, called reduced yielding segment BRB (Buckling Restrained Brace) in which the length of its yielding part is reduced and placed in one end of the brace element in comparison with conventional BRBs. Forthermore,these factors are calculated for ordinary BRBF and the results are compared. In this regard incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) method is used for studying 17 records of the most known earthquakes happened in the world. To do that, the considered buildings have different stories and two bracing configurations: diagonal and inverted V chevron, the most ordinary configurations of BRBFs. Static pushover analysis, nonlinear incremental dynamic analysis and linear dynamic analysis have been performed using OpenSees software. Considering the results, it can be seen that, overstrength, ductility and response modification factors of this type of BRBF(Buckling Restrained Braced Frame) is greater than those of conventional types and it shows better seismic performance and also eliminates some of conventional BRBF
 
Key Words
    response modification factor; ductility factor; overstrength factor; reduced length BRB; IDA
 
Address
Nader Fanaie and Ebrahim Afsar Dizaj : Department of Civil Engineering, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
 

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