Evaluation of Connection Fracture and Hysteresis Type on the Seismic Response of Steel Buildings

213 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.Another topic of the research is to study the effects of hysteresis models on structural performance. During the performance-based structure design, the effects of hysteretic energy dissipation on the maximum displacement response amplitude of buildings plays a important role in determining the design forces. Linear, bilinear, strength degradation, stiffness degradation, and connection fracture models were used to determine the effects of hysteresis type on multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) structural systems.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD