防压曲支撑在结构抗震加固中的应用与展望

防压曲支撑(BRB)既可提高结构的抗侧刚度,又有较强的地震耗能能力,可用于结构抗震加固中。本文叙述并讨论了防压曲支撑用于结构抗震加固的过程及特点,并列举了一个工程实例。该技术在国外已得到广泛应用,本文针对中国大陆的情况给出了一些建议。     

Direct displacement-based design for seismic retrofit of existing buildings using nonlinear viscous dampers

This paper presents a direct displacement-based design procedure for seismic retrofit of existing buildings using nonlinear viscous dampers according to equivalent linear systems. Unlike conventional methods, the equivalent linear viscous damping provided by the nonlinear viscous dampers is derived based on the assumption that the average energy dissipated between the linear and the nonlinear viscous dampers is equal. Also, the equivalent period and viscous damping for the equivalent linear systems which are used for representing the behavior of bare frames (the buildings without dampers) are derived from the concept of average storage energy and average dissipated energy, respectively. It is shown from nonlinear time-history analyses that the nonlinear action of the retrofitted structures can be reasonably captured by the presented direct displacement-based procedure.