Tadeh Zirakian

NUMERICAL STUDY ON STEEL SHEAR WALLS WITH SINUSOIDAL CORRUGATED PLATES

Over the past decades a growing demand and interest has stimulated many researchers to investigate different aspects of steel plate shear walls (SPSWs). The structural performance of steel shear walls with sinusoidal corrugated plate infills is investigated in this study. Finite element (FE) analysis was adopted using ANSYS software, wherein flat and corrugatedshear walls - with different thicknesses, various corrugation numbers and angles - were modeled under monotonic and cyclic loads. Results and findings of this study indicate that geometrical variations developed through corrugation can be effective on the capacity, rigidity, and post-yielding responses of such corrugated-web lateral force-resisting systems. In addition, proper design and detailing can result in desirable structural behavior and seismic performance of SPSWs with sinusoidal corrugated infill plates.

ELASTIC DISTORTIONAL BUCKLING OF SINGLY SYMMETRIC I-SHAPED FLEXURAL MEMBERS WITH SLENDER WEBS

The effectiveness of the measures provided in the 2005 American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Specification for elastic distortional buckling of doubly symmetric I-shaped flexural members with slender webs was evaluated in a previous study. It was demonstrated that the code equations generally provide conservative strength estimates for the slender-web I-beams, and the amount of the conservatism was found to be rather dramatic for some cases. As a continuation of this effort, the effectiveness and accuracy of the 2005 AISC code provisions as well as predictions for elastic distortional buckling of slender-web singly symmetric I-shaped members is investigated in this paper. Comparisons are made with the finite strip analysis results for distortional buckling and the two design equations for elastic distortional buckling proposed by other researchers. It is demonstrated that the code predictions are by and large conservative, and even overly conservative in some cases, which does not seem to be justifiable economically.

Performance Assessment of Steel Moment-Resisting Frame Structures Using Fragility Methodology

AbstractThis paper presents a probabilistic study using the fragility function method for the performance assessment of two 1/6-scale, single-bay, three- and eight-story steel moment-resisting fram...