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Shaking‐table test of a friction‐damped frame structure
Author(s) -
LIAO WENI,
MUALLA IMAD,
LOH CHINHSIUNG
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the structural design of tall and special buildings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1541-7808
pISSN - 1541-7794
DOI - 10.1002/tal.232
Subject(s) - earthquake shaking table , frame (networking) , displacement (psychology) , structural engineering , table (database) , test (biology) , viscous damping , engineering , geotechnical engineering , geology , computer science , mechanical engineering , vibration , acoustics , physics , psychology , paleontology , psychotherapist , data mining
This paper presents results from an international research project devoted to evaluating the seismic performance of a three‐storey steel frame structure equipped with a friction‐damping device (FDD) recently developed at the Technical University of Denmark. Experimental results indicate that the FDD performed very well in reducing the lateral storey drifts of the test frame. Numerical simulation of the seismic response of the primary and friction‐damped frame was also conducted. This paper also compares the predictions of the displacement demand from the test results with those obtained by the capacity spectrum method. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.