Steel plate shear walls usually do not satisfy the strong-column weak-beam design criteria, leading to larger column sections. On other hand, rigid frame structures are typically constructed in low-rise mid-rise buildings built locations prone strong earthquakes due their high flexibility and cost-effective solutions. Overcoming these restrictions SPSW system, this paper is dedicated employing ...

The capacity of a structure can be assessed using inelastic analyses, requiring sophisticated numerical procedures such as pushover and incremental dynamic analyses. A simplified method for the evaluation seismic performance steel Concentrically Braced Frames (CBFs) to used in everyday practice immediate aftermath an earthquake has been recently proposed. This evaluates existing building employ...

This paper is an experimental study on the behavior of vertical shear link in the single and double configurations. There have been three specimens selected for examining the effects of different details .The first specimen was an I section with no stiffener, while the second specimen composed of I section with stiffeners designed according to AISC 2005. Third specimens were composed of two I s...

The objective of this paper is to describe and analyze a series of nonlinear finite element analyses used to compare three design methods for locally slender, braced, steel beams and columns. The three design methods are: (i) the hot-rolled steel AISC Specification, (ii) the coldformed steel AISI Specification which uses the effective width method throughout, and (iii) the cold-formed steel Dir...