Shake Table Testing of a Low Damage Steel Building with Asymmetric Friction Connections (AFC)

Abstract:

The paper describes the shaking table performance of a half-scale two-story steel moment frame with asymmetric friction connections (AFCs) at the column bases and at the beam ends. The results showed that the beam ends and the base-column joints exhibited bilinear and trilinear response respectively. Residual drifts were less than 0.2% for shake table trials up to 3% peak inter-story drift. Even at a peak inter-story drift of 6.5%, the residual drift response was still only 0.7%.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 763)
• Pages: 400-405
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.763.400
• Online since: February 2018
• Authors: Ali A. Rad*, Gregory A. MacRae, Nikoo K. Hazaveh, Quincy T. Ma
• Keywords: Asymmetric Friction Connections, Shake Table Testing, Steel Moment Frame

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