COMPONENT TESTS AND SIMULATION OF ADVANCED BUCKLING RESTRAINED BRACES

摘要

Recently, the earthquake proof technology has been acknowledged to be able to ensure the safety of the structures effectively during earthquakes. In this paper, two advanced buckling restrained braces (BRBs) that include multi-curved reinforced BRB and simplified reinforced BRB are presented. These two braces not only improve the disadvantages of traditional buckling restrained braces but also are more economic than the traditional ones. In order to understand the behaviors of advanced buckling restrained braces, the component tests of the advanced buckling restrained braces were carried out in the Department of Civil Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan. The experimental results illustrate that the behaviors of the advanced buckling restrained braces were very stable, as well as the maximum tension forces are close to the maximum compression forces. Furthermore, the Wen's model in an increment form was utilized to simulate the behaviors of the advanced buckling restrained braces under cyclic loadings. The comparison between the experimental and numerical results shows that the mathematical model could simulate the behaviors of the advanced BRBs well.