With critical lessons drawn from past major earthquakes, the engineering community is appealing for a fundamental shift in the existing design philosophy for structures in seismic …
S Hu, C Qiu, S Zhu - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The self-centering braced frames (SCBFs) have been widely investigated for enhancing the building structures' post-earthquake repairability by reducing or even eliminating the …
This state-of-the-art review provides an overview of the evolution of self-centering structures from early historical structures that inherently exhibited a recentering response to modern …
CX Qiu, S Zhu - Engineering Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
This study proposes a performance-based seismic design (PBSD) method for steel braced frames with novel self-centering (SC) braces that utilize shape memory alloys (SMA) as a …
C Qiu, S Zhu - Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Given their excellent self‐centering and energy‐dissipating capabilities, superelastic shape memory alloys (SMAs) become an emerging structural material in the field of earthquake …
Conventional steel moment-resisting frames (SMRFs) absorb seismic energy through steel yielding behavior, leading to significant residual displacement. Although steel yielding …
Structures designed in accordance with even the most modern buildings codes are expected to sustain damage during a severe earthquake; however; these structures are …
MR Eatherton, X Ma, H Krawinkler, D Mar… - Journal of Structural …, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
The self-centering rocking steel-braced frame is a high-performance system that can prevent major structural damage and minimize residual drifts during large earthquakes. It consists of …