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Braced frames and steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) have both been shown to be useful in the seismic retrofit of buildings. While both these systems have merit, no guidance exists to help the engineer determine which of the two approaches is preferable in terms of providing stiffness, maximum displacement ductility, cumulative hysteretic energy dissipation, and energy dissipation per cycle for a given strength. In an attempt to provide some quantitative data and insight for this purpose, this paper describes and compares the results from cyclic testing of six frames: four concentrically braced frames (two with cold-formed steel studs for in-plane and out-of-plane restraint of the braces and two without), and two light-gauge steel plate shear walls (one with a flat infill plate and one with a corrugated infill). The largest initial stiffness was provided by a braced frame specimen with cold formed steel studs and the largest ductility was achieved with a steel plate shear wall with flat infill. After scaling the hysteretic results to the same design base shear, it was found that both the energy dissipated per cycle and the cumulative energy dissipation were similar for flat plate SPSW

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Author

Jeffrey W. Berman; Oguz C. Celik; Michel Bruneau

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0141-0296)

Published

2005

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Technology, Engineering, Stem