From lessons learned in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, it becomes clear that the quick procurement of an emergent public shelter is very important in time of disaster. Struc [...]

In the 1995 Kobe earthquake, many steel structures suffered damage at beam-to-column connections. And in those damaged buildings, fractures of a beam flange at the beam-t [...]

Braced frame structures are used for school gymnasiums and factories with large space. It is very important building which will be used as emergency public shelters in ti [...]

The performance of passively controlled buildings depends not only on dampers but also on frame members and connections. The frame members are subjected to bending moment [...]

This paper describes a multipurpose setup system called “test bed” for large shaking table tests. The test bed comprises multi-story box-trusses with concrete mass of [...]

The majority of these studies have tested isolated braces or simple subassemblies which neglect the influence of the framing components and the gusset-plate on the system [...]