RESEARCH ARTICLE
An Experimental Study on Seismic Performance of Steel Truss Coupling Beams with Buckling-restrained Brace
Weidong Sun, Kang Li*, Xinyu Niu
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 9
First Page: 134
Last Page: 139
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-9-134
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501509010134
Article History:
Received Date: 17/9/2014Revision Received Date: 17/12/2014
Acceptance Date: 23/12/2014
Electronic publication date: 17/4/2015
Collection year: 2015
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Abstract
Through the pseudo-static test on the steel truss coupling beams with buckling-restrained brace, the bearing capacity, deformation capacity, hysteresis curve, skeleton curve, ductility, Energy Dissipation and stiffness degradation of such coupling beam are understood. The test results show that the steel truss coupling beams with buckling-restrained brace is characterized by bigger bearing capacity, higher ductility and good plastic energy dissipation capacity.