DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-CENTERING EARTHQUAKE RESISTING SYSTEMS

With current seismic design approaches, most structural systems are designed to respond beyond the elastic limit and eventually to develop a mechanism involving ductile inelastic response in specific regions of the structural system. Although seismic design aimed at inelastic response is very appealing, particularly from the initial cost stand point, regions in the lateral force resisting system are expected to be damaged and might require …