The largest expenditure of energy is generally associated with first level soft story failure, as depicted in Fig. 6f, g.
(17) or (18), provided that residual effects are small (MacRae and Kawashima 1997), the wall remains elastic and suppresses soft story failure.
Even though no story failure mechanism was observed until maximum inter-story drift of 1.5%% was reached in all model structures, it would be necessary to delay the occurrence of story failure mechanism by reinforcing lower story columns to increase seismic-load resisting capacity of the structures.
The corresponding carrying capacity can be related to the sum of the ultimate resistances of the subframes as; (M_{0}^{P} + M_{PDelta }^{P} ) = 2sumlimits_{j = 1}^{n} {sumlimits_{i = 0}^{m} {bar{M}_{i,j}^{P} } }. (20) Open image in new window Fig. 6 a Loading, b proposed dual system, c RRW, d MF failure, e BRB failure, f soft story failure of MF and g soft story failure of RRW.
The purpose of the current section was to establish the minimum strength of the wall in such a way as to prevent soft story failure, study its effects on the strength of the frame, compute the lateral displacements at incipient collapse and to show that a well-controlled design can meet both the target drift as well as the prescribed demand-capacity requirements.
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This paper investigates a new seismic rehabilitation technology for low-rise and mid-rise steel Concentrically Braced Frames (CBFs) vulnerable to inter-story drift concentration and soft-story failures.
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CBFs are also susceptible to soft-story failure.
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