Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 255-271 (2020)
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF RESILIENT PREFABRICATED STEEL FRAME WITH
ALL-BOLTED BEAM-TO-COLUMN CONNECTIONS
Ai-Lin Zhang 1, 2, 3,, Guang-Hao Shangguan 3 ,Yan-Xia Zhang 1, 3, *, Qing-Bo Wang 3 and Wen-Chao Cai 3
1 Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing, China
2 Beijing Engineering Research Center of High-rise and Large-span Prestressed Steel Structure, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
3 School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing, China
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Received: 18 September 2019; Revised: 12 June 2020; Accepted: 22 June 2020
DOI:10.18057/IJASC.2020.16.3.7
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ABSTRACT
To avoid welding on a construction site, this paper proposes a novel resilient prefabricated steel frame with all-bolted beam-to-column connections (ABRPSF), which is optimized based on a resilient prefabricated steel frame with mixed welded and bolted beam-to-column connections (WBRPSF) that was proposed and investigated in a previous study. Four-story, 3 × 5 bay prototype structures of the ABRPSF and WBRPSF are designed, and their substructures are used to conduct pseudo-dynamic tests, whose results are then compared to investigate the seismic behavior of ABRPSFs. The results indicate that the seismic behavior and recentering capacity of a new structural system composed of ABRPSFs are similar to those of WBRPSFs; in addition, the ABRPSF improves the assembly efficiency significantly and can be adopted as a reliable alternative to the WBRPSF.
KEYWORDS
Resilient prefabricated steel frame, All-bolted beam-to-column con-nection, Mixed welded and bolted beam-to-column connection, Pseudo-dynamic test, Seismic behavior
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