عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
In Knee-Braced Frames (KBF), one end of the diagonal brace is connected to a knee element rather than the beam–column joint. In fact, the knee element, as a hysteretic damper, is designed and detailed to behave like a structural fuse such that by sustaining controlled inelastic deformations and dissipating seismic energy, other members and connections remain elastic. In this paper, the impact of different structural parameters on the seismic behavior of KBF and also the effect of using Double Knee-Braced Frames (DKBF) are studied using nonlinear finite element analysis. The results show the efficiency of KBF in simple framing structures and some drawbacks of DKBF compared to KBF.
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