0
  • DE
  • EN
  • FR
  • International Database and Gallery of Structures

Advertisement

Experimental assessment of a new steel hysteretic device: Crescent Shaped Brace

 Experimental assessment of a new steel hysteretic device: Crescent Shaped Brace
Author(s): , , , ORCID
Presented at IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016, published in , pp. 2214-2220
DOI: 10.2749/stockholm.2016.2213
Price: € 25.00 incl. VAT for PDF document  
ADD TO CART
Download preview file (PDF) 0.19 MB

The Crescent Shaped Brace (CSB) is a new steel dissipative device recently proposed by some of the authors within the context of Performance Based Seismic Design (PBSD). Contrarily to the conventio...
Read more

Bibliographic Details

Author(s): (Department DICAM, University of Bologna, Italy)
(Department DICAM, University of Bologna, Italy)
(Department DICAM, University of Bologna, Italy)
ORCID (Department DICAM, University of Bologna, Italy)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016
Published in:
Page(s): 2214-2220 Total no. of pages: 7
Page(s): 2214-2220
Total no. of pages: 7
Year: 2016
DOI: 10.2749/stockholm.2016.2213
Abstract:

The Crescent Shaped Brace (CSB) is a new steel dissipative device recently proposed by some of the authors within the context of Performance Based Seismic Design (PBSD). Contrarily to the conventional concentric stiff diagonal braces, the CSB allows the practical designer to choose the lateral stiffness independently from the yield strength of the device, due to its peculiar ad-hoc shape. In previous studies, analytical formulations and first experimental tests were described. In the present paper, the main results of further experimental tests conducted on scaled CSB specimens of full circular cross-section under both monotonic pseudo-static and cyclic loads are presented. The results of the experimental tests are compared with analytical formulations.

Keywords:
Crescent shaped braces steel hysteretic devices performance based seismic design