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

Year Of Curation: 2011

Description: 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.

Award: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0324277

PIs & CoPIs: NSF Pre-NEES Program CMS-0324629

Dates: October 01, 2003 - April 28, 2009

Organizations:
Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, United States
State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, United States
University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
University of California, San Diego, CA, United States
University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, United States

Facilities: Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, United States
State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, United States
University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
University of California, San Diego, CA, United States
University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, United States

Sponsor: NSF - n/a - 0324277

Keywords: Braced Frames, Struts, Zipper Struts, Steel

Publications: 
"Hybrid Simulation Evaluation of Innovative Steel Braced Framing System"
Chuang-Sheng Yang, "Analytical and Experimental Study of Concentrically Braced Frames With Zipper Struts"
"Hybrid Simulation Evaluation of Innovative Steel Braced Framing System"

• Andrei Reinhorn, Michel Bruneau (2017), "Behavior of Braced Steel Frames With Innovative Bracing Schemes - A NEES Collaboratory Project (NEES-2005-0024)," https://datacenterhub.org/deedsdv/publications/view/414.