Experimental Study of Hysteretic steel damper for energy dissipation capacity
Session
Civil Engineering, Infrastructure and Environment
Description
This paper summarizes the experimental campaign carried out for the development of a new steel energy dissipative device named Slit Dampers (SDs) designed for earthquake protection of structures. SDs consist in shear steel plates with appropriately shaped cut-out portions of material for allowing the maximum spread of plastic deformation along the device and then maximizing the hysteretic dissipative behavior. A total of eighty-two steel shear plates with different openings and thicknesses are tested to investigate their behavior under cyclic pseudo-static loading. Six types of steel shear plates are studied, including the SD with narrow slits that divide the plate into rectangular links, and the butterfly fuse with a diamond-shaped opening that creates butterfly shape links in the plate. Other varying test parameters are loading rate, material strength, and the number of in-parallel damper elements. It is expected that the proposed model can be successfully used to predict the behavior of dampers in real-world applications.
Keywords:
Experimental, Energy dissipation, Cyclic load, Metalic damper, Hysteresis Model, etc
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-95-6
Location
UBT Lipjan, Kosovo
Start Date
28-10-2023 8:00 AM
End Date
29-10-2023 6:00 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2023.360
Recommended Citation
Gashi, Feritt; Petrini, Francesco; and Bontempi, Franco, "Experimental Study of Hysteretic steel damper for energy dissipation capacity" (2023). UBT International Conference. 24.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/IC/civil/24
Experimental Study of Hysteretic steel damper for energy dissipation capacity
UBT Lipjan, Kosovo
This paper summarizes the experimental campaign carried out for the development of a new steel energy dissipative device named Slit Dampers (SDs) designed for earthquake protection of structures. SDs consist in shear steel plates with appropriately shaped cut-out portions of material for allowing the maximum spread of plastic deformation along the device and then maximizing the hysteretic dissipative behavior. A total of eighty-two steel shear plates with different openings and thicknesses are tested to investigate their behavior under cyclic pseudo-static loading. Six types of steel shear plates are studied, including the SD with narrow slits that divide the plate into rectangular links, and the butterfly fuse with a diamond-shaped opening that creates butterfly shape links in the plate. Other varying test parameters are loading rate, material strength, and the number of in-parallel damper elements. It is expected that the proposed model can be successfully used to predict the behavior of dampers in real-world applications.
