Assessment of perforated steel beam-to-column connections subjected to cyclic loading
Tsavdaridis, KD, Faghih, F and Nikitas, N
(2014)
Assessment of perforated steel beam-to-column connections subjected to cyclic loading.
Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 18 (8).
1302 - 1325.
ISSN 1363-2469
Abstract
This paper presents a study of welded perforated beam-to-column connections, forming the so-called RWS systems. The effect of using non-standard novel web opening configurations of variable depths and positions is investigated. The ease of manufacturing process together with the improvements on the structural behaviour foreshadows the enhancements gained using these perforated members. It is concluded that using large perforations is an effective way of improving the behaviour of connections enhancing their ductility and their energy dissipation capacity. The connections with novel openings outperform the conventional ones; hence they can be suitably used in the aseismic design of steel frames.
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Authors/Creators:
Tsavdaridis, KD
Faghih, F
Nikitas, N
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:
(c) 2014 Konstantinos Daniel Tsavdaridis, Faezeh Faghih, and Nikolaos Nikitas. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
Keywords:
Steel moment connection; perforated steel beams; web opening; RWS connection; cyclic; hysteretic; ductility; Vierendeel mechanism; finite element analysis; parametric study
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