High Performance Forms of Traditional Seismic Systems
Event details
| Date | 01.10.2012 |
| Hour | 10:00 › 11:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Paul W. Richards, Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brigham Young University, USA |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Buildings in high seismic areas of the U.S. are generally designed so that they will experience inelastic deformations during severe seismic loading and will have residual deformations after the event. While technologies such as base isolation and self-centering frames have been developed to prevent permanent deformations, these technologies have seen very limited implementation in U.S. practice for new construction. Rather, U.S. practice favors traditional systems and connections that provide the lowest up-front cost. This talk explores two ways that traditional systems and connections can be used to produce higher performance steel buildings at lower-or-similar up-front cost than present practice. The first approach is using cantilevered gravity columns as a secondary system. The second approach is using ultra-flexible moment resisting frames.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Steel Structures Laboratory (ICOM)