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 …
Rocking structural systems have been proposed as a promising solution for designing resilient building structures. These low-damage systems can prevent significant economic …
S Hu, X Lei - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Self-centering systems have emerged as innovative lateral force-resisting mechanisms aimed at improving the earthquake resilience of building structures. The fully self-centering …
R Zhang, C Qiu, L Huang, J Jia - Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a performance evaluation of full and 'partial'self-centering (SC) systems based on spectral analysis of Single Degree of Freedom (SDOF) systems. The primary …
S Hu, W Wang, MS Alam - Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Near-fault pulse-like ground motions can lead to significant seismic demand on building structures due to velocity pulses. The self-centering energy-absorbing dual rocking core …
C Qiu, X Du, J Teng, Z Li, C Chen - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake …, 2021 - Elsevier
Superelastic shape memory alloys (SMAs) can recover large inelastic deformation meanwhile dissipating energy under loading reversals. This property makes them an …
Controlled-rocking steel cores (CRSCs) effectively prevent earthquake-induced residual damage while may suffer large lateral displacements. This paper gives a particular …
In this research paper, the inelastic displacement ratio known as maximum nonlinear displacement to maximum elastic displacement is determined at different periods of vibration …
M Wei, X Hu, H Yuan - Advances in Structural Engineering, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a comprehensive study of residual displacements of the bilinear single degree of freedom (SDOF) systems under the near-fault ground motions (NFGMs). Five sets …