Seismic Resilience Assessment of Eccentrically Braced Steel Buildings
Keywords:
Seismic resilience, Steel buildings, Residual drift, permanent driftAbstract
This paper presents the evaluation of the seismic resilience of steel buildings whose structural system is based on eccentric braces located at soft soil sites of Mexico City. Their seismic response was evaluated in terms of maximum, IDR, and permanent, RIDR, interstorey drift as well as on link plastic rotation,gp. The relationships among IDR-RIDR, IDR-gp y RIDR-gp is presented to allow estimate the likelihood of link damage as well as its corresponding method of repair. Finally, recovery functions for short links related to four repair methods and their corresponding cost is presented in this paper.
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