Stability Analysis of Prefabricated Steel Structure Building Based on Pushover Method

Prefabricated steel structure building is a kind of structural system which is widely used in recent years. It is very necessary to study the stability of it by Pushover method. Through the investigation of a building under construction in Hebei Province, China, the finite element analysis software SAP2000 is used to establish numerical simulation models of four kinds of staggered truss steel structure, so as to calculate its static pushover performance. It includes base shear-peak displacement curves, performance points and plastic hinge development. The main conclusions are as follows: the terminal shear and displacement of the hybrid staggered truss structure are obviously better than that of the Vierendeel staggered truss structure in the process of pushover. The base shear of the structure can be greatly increased and the overall deformation of the frame can be reduced when the side spans is set up. Until the end of the pushover, there is no plastic hinge on the column, which meets the seismic design requirements of “strong column and weak beam”, indicating that the prefabricated steel structure staggered truss system has good seismic performance.

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