Seismic response comparison of steel MRFs with yielding and low-damage connections

The development of low-damage steel moment resisting connections for seismic applications provides designers with techniques to dissipate energy without relying on plastic deformations of beam sections, thus avoiding connection strength and stiffness deterioration and providing the opportunity of adding a self-centering mechanism to avoid residual displacements. In this paper, the system-level performance of two low-damage connections, the …