The buckling restrained braced frame system was introduced to the U.S. construction market in 1999 as a solution for meeting hardened building codes following the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Since ...

Structural engineers inspecting Christchurch’s six steel structures designed with eccentric bracing to resist seismic loads found that five performed well in the shallow Canterbury earthquake that ...

Computer modeling shows this alternative design for a three-story building frame suffers less damage than current designs used in earthquake-prone areas. Columns of the steel-braced frame are tethered ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering; Simultaneous story yielding; Axial force demand; Column design; Wave propagation; Seismic design; Multistory buildings; Shear buildings; Pulse excitation; Earthquake ...