Federal Highway Administration Under Grant No. DTFH61-98-C-00094
An experimental program was initiated to investigate the seismic performance of built-up laced steel brace members. Quasi-static testing of twelve typical steel built-up laced member (BLM) specimens was conducted. T...
Federal Highway Administration Under Grant No.DTFH61-98-C-00094
The test results described in Part 1 of this paper (Lee and Bruneau, 2008) on twelve steel built-up laced members (BLMs) subjected to quasi-static loading are analyzed to provide better knowledge on their seismic ...
the Federal Highway Administration through the Highway Project at the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research;the toll bridge retrofit program of the California Department of Transportation through the University of California,San Diego
Non-linear finite element models accounting for large displacements have been used to investigate the behavior of steel built-up shear links that had previously been tested using large-scale experiments. The links wer...