Behavior of Braced Steel Frames With Innovative Bracing Schemes - A NEES Collaboratory Project (NEES-2005-0024)

<p><strong>Title</strong>: Behavior of Braced Steel Frames With Innovative Bracing Schemes - A NEES Collaboratory Project (NEES-2005-0024)</p> <p><b>Year Of Curation: </b>2011</p> <p><b>Description: </b>This project intends to generate data on the behavior of braced steel frames with emphasis on a novel configuration called a zipper frame. In a zipper frame, the unbalanced forces set up as a result of buckling of the inverted V braces in compression are taken by an additional vertical element, leading to nearly simultaneous buckling of all stories. Look in the "Directory....PDF" file in Project Documentation to see a list of all files and their location for the Georgia Tech experiments.</p> <p><b>Award: </b>http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0324277</p> <p><b>PIs & CoPIs: </b>NSF Pre-NEES Program CMS-0324629</p> <p><b>Dates: </b>October 01, 2003 - April 28, 2009</p> <p><b>Organizations: </b><br /> Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, United States<br /> State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, United States<br /> University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States<br /> University of California, San Diego, CA, United States<br /> University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, United States</p> <p><b>Facilities: </b>Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, United States<br /> State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, United States<br /> University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States<br /> University of California, San Diego, CA, United States<br /> University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, United States</p> <p><b>Sponsor: </b>NSF - n/a - 0324277</p> <p><b>Keywords: </b>Braced Frames, Struts, Zipper Struts, Steel</p> <p><b>Publications: </b><br /> "Hybrid Simulation Evaluation of Innovative Steel Braced Framing System"<br /> Chuang-Sheng Yang, "Analytical and Experimental Study of Concentrically Braced Frames With Zipper Struts"<br /> "Hybrid Simulation Evaluation of Innovative Steel Braced Framing System"</p> <nb:citations></nb:citations>