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- Title
- Enhancements to Program IDARC: Modeling Inelastic Behavior of Welded Connections in Steel Moment-Resisting Frames.
- File
- PB95231601.pdf
- Author(s)
- Kunnath, S. K.
- Source
- National Inst. of Standards and Technology (BFRL), Gaithersburg, MD., May 1995, 71 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- NIST/GCR-95/673
- Abstract
- An existing computer code, IDARC, is enhanced to permit the modeling of steel moment-resisting frames (SMRFs) with the potential for weld failures at beam-to-column connections. The steel member model is derived from flexibility formulations in order to allow complex degrading hysteresis behavior to be incorporated. A panel zone element is developed to account for inelastic shear deformations in the beam-to-column connection region. Finally, a new conceptual hysteresis model is developed to represent the force-deformation characteristics at a welded connection, before and after weld failure. The results of the study indicate that the enhanced program, referred to as IDASS, is capable of adequately reproducing observed behavior of SMRFs and can be used as an effective tool to investigate the effects of weld failure in steel structures under earthquake loading.
- Keywords
- Steels; Reinforced concrete; IDARC computer program; Computerized simulation; Retrofitting; Farmed structures; Walls; Damage analysis; Earthquake engineering; Hysteresis; Computer programs