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SUMMARY:High Performance Forms of Traditional Seismic Systems
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Paul W. Richards\, Dept. Civil and Environmental Enginee
 ring\, Brigham Young University\, USA\nBuildings in high seismic areas of 
 the U.S. are generally designed so that they will experience inelastic def
 ormations during severe seismic loading and will have residual deformation
 s after the event. While technologies such as base isolation and self-cent
 ering frames have been developed to prevent permanent deformations\, these
  technologies have seen very limited implementation in U.S. practice for n
 ew construction. Rather\, U.S. practice favors traditional systems and con
 nections that provide the lowest up-front cost. This talk explores two way
 s that traditional systems and connections can be used to produce higher p
 erformance steel buildings at lower-or-similar up-front cost than present 
 practice. The first approach is using cantilevered gravity columns as a se
 condary system. The second approach is using ultra-flexible moment resisti
 ng frames.
LOCATION:GC B3 30 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=en&room=GC+B3+30
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