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ENGINEERING STRUCTURES
卷 159, 期 -, 页码 185-197出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2017.12.049
关键词
Passive control; Metallic yielding dampers; Hysteretic dampers; Earthquake energy dissipation; Fuse
In this paper, a new passive earthquake damper termed as Bar-Fuse Damper (BFD) is presented for frame structures. The BFD is developed from common steel sections such as hot-rolled Square Hollow Sections (SHS), C-channels, plates and bars. It is economical, easy to install and build with no special fabrication technique. The key feature of the BFD is using round steel bars as energy absorber components that can be easily replaced in case of failure. The proposed device dissipates the energy with the replaceable bars as sacrificial elements through the flexural and tensile mechanism. The performance of several full-scale BFDs was evaluated with a series of monotonic and cyclic experiments, and the bars successfully performed their function as energy absorbers and fuses in all specimens. The effects of variations in the number, length and diameter of bars in the BFD along with the nuts arrangement were investigated in this experimental study. This study indicates that the recommended device has stable hysteretic behaviour under cyclic loads with two significant features: appropriate energy dissipation and replaceability of the fuses, which can be useful to protect the main elements of structures from plastic deformation and failure for several events. The results obtained for the BFD are promising for its use as a passive seismic damper in engineering structures in order to improve the seismic behaviour of structures as well as dissipating the earthquake energy.
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