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Evaluation of Seismic Behavior of Concentrically Braced Frames with Zipper Columns

Nasim Irani Sarand1 * , Akbar Danesh2 , Abdolrahim Jalali3 and Yousef Hosseinzadeh3

1 Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

2 University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Civil Engineering Faculty, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.47

Chevron braced frames are typical lateral load resisting system which have poor performance due to buckling of the compressive braces and forming soft story mechanism. To improve the seismic behavior of chevron braced frames and overcome these disadvantages of chevron braced frames, zipper braced frames have been proposed. In order to investigate the seismic behavior of zipper braced frames 3, 6, 9 and 12 story zipper braced frames were designed and modeled in ABAQUS. Nonlinear time history analyses showed that seismic performance of chevron braced frames improved by adding zipper columns due to uniform damage distribution over the building height.


Chevron Brace; Nonlinear Time History Analyses; Unbalanced Force; Zipper Column

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Sarand N. I, Danesh A, Jalali A, Hosseinzadeh Y. Evaluation of Seismic Behavior of Concentrically Braced Frames with Zipper Columns. Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.47

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Sarand N. I, Danesh A, Jalali A, Hosseinzadeh Y. Evaluation of Seismic Behavior of Concentrically Braced Frames with Zipper Columns. Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=9609

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