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EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING VIBRATION
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 453-467Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11803-022-2092-5
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strong spine system; energy-dissipating device; floor acceleration; floor velocity; nonstructural damage
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Pin-supported (PS) walls have been proven effective in avoiding weak story failure of frame structures by increasing the height-wise continuous stiffness and producing uniform distribution of story drifts. However, there has been little attention given to the floor velocity or acceleration responses of PS wall-frame structures, which are critical to the seismic damage of nonstructural components. This paper presents a numerical evaluation of the floor velocity and acceleration responses of PS wall-frame structures, focusing on the effects of different types of dampers accompanying the PS walls.
Pin-supported (PS) walls have been proven effective in avoiding weak story failure of frame structures by increasing the height-wise continuous stiffness and producing uniform distribution of story drifts. However, little attention has been given to the floor velocity or acceleration responses of PS wall-frame structures, which predominate the seismic damage of various nonstructural components that are critical to the immediate occupancy and quick recovery of buildings. This paper presents a numerical evaluation of the floor velocity and acceleration responses of PS wall-frame structures, highlighting the effects of different types of dampers accompanying the PS walls. The results show that the PS walls alone significantly increase the peak floor velocity (PFV) and peak floor acceleration (PFA) responses. PS wall-frame structures with either steel or viscoelastic (VE) dampers are much less effective in reducing the PFV or PFA responses than they are in reducing the peak inter-story drift ratio (PIDR). The impact of this behavior is demonstrated by a seismic fragility analysis that incorporates demand parameters combining the maximum PIDR, average PFV and PFA. The results show that the use of VE dampers rather than hysteretic dampers results in better protection of nonstructural components in PS wall-frame structures.
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