The buckling restrained braced frame system was introduced to the U.S. construction market in 1999 as a solution for meeting hardened building codes following the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Since ...

Like many large cities in the United States, Seattle has its share of heavy winds. For structural engineers like Mark Whiteley, a senior principal with Cary Kopczynski & Co. of Bellevue, the winds ...

Cold formed steel studs (CFSS), typically used in nonstructural partition walls, were studied to determine if they could be used to laterally restrain braces against buckling and thus enhance their ...

NEW DELHI Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi have developed low-cost, super-elastic, buckling-restrained braces to enhance the earthquake resistance in constructed ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering; Simultaneous story yielding; Axial force demand; Column design; Wave propagation; Seismic design; Multistory buildings; Shear buildings; Pulse excitation; Earthquake ...