Driven by the demand of producing novel seismic resilient structures, this study focused on
steel moment resisting frames equipped with superelastic shape memory alloy (SMA)
connections in the self-centring energy dissipation bays, and the emphasis was given to a
direct-iterative design method for performance-based-plastic-design of the system under
earthquake motions. Utilising the equivalent single-degree-of-freedom (SDF) oscillator
which may reasonably quantify the dynamic responses of a multi-storey structure, an …