Buckling-restrained brace using steel mortar planks; performance evaluation as a hysteretic damper

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1807-1826

  Iwata, Mamoru ^a   Murai, Masatoshi ^a  

^a KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buckling restrained brace; Elastoplastic properties; Full scale experiment; Hysteretic damper; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; ELASTOPLASTICITY; HYSTERESIS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STIFFNESS; STRAIN;

BUCKLING-RESTRAINED BRACE; HYSTERETIC CHARACTERISTICS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BUCKLING; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; ELASTOPLASTICITY; HYSTERESIS; MORTAR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STEEL STRUCTURE;

EID: 33750714454     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.608     Document Type: Article

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