Applications of Hysteretic Steel Dampers in Buildings of Novel Feature

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Situated in a highly active seismic region, Japan is abundant with innovative seismic control systems from base isolation to various passively-controlled systems utilizing devices such as viscous dampers and steel hysteretic dampers. Although the applications of these devices are often located within core framing and hidden from sight, at times the dampers are revealed and incorporated into the design structurally and architecturally. This paper will discuss a project which exhibits a novel application of steel hysteretic dampers, Osaka International Conference Centre (OICC). Albeit a project that was engineered nearly a decade past, the engineering techniques applied to realize this structure perhaps can be considered advanced even by today’s standards.

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