AISC SEISMIC DESIGN TEACHING NOTES
Prepared by Dr. Micheal Engelhardt of Univ. of Texas @ Austin
Enhanced by Dr. Judy Liu (Sections 1, 2, 5,7) and Dr. Varma (Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6)
SECTION 1 - STEEL MOMENT
RESISTING FRAMES
SECTION 2 - STEEL SHEAR WALL SYSTEMS
SECTION 3 - CONCENTRICALLY
BRACED FRAMES
MOVIE 1 - BRACE EIGENVALUE
ANALYSIS
MOVIE 2 -
CYCLIC ANALYSIS OF BRACES WITH PIN ENDS
MOVIE 3 - CYCLIC
ANALYSIS OF BRACES WITH FIX ENDS AND COMPARISON
MOVIE 4 - CYCLIC BEHAVIOR OF BRACED FRAME
(COMING)
MOVIE 5 - SEISMIC RESPONSE OF BRACED FRAME TO
GROUND MOTION (COMING)
SECTION 4 - ECCENTRICALLY BRACED FRAMES
SECTION 5 - BUCKLING RESTRAINED BRACED FRAMES
ANALYSIS FOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
I) Link to FEMA documents
relating to the design of new and evaluation of older structures for
earthquake resistance:
http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/earthquake/publications.shtm
Of particular importance are:
New Buildings (FEMA 350,
368-369, 389, 424, 450)
Existing Buildings (FEMA
356-357)
II) Link to website for Central United States Earthquake Consortium
http://www.cusec.org/
This site provides resources for the Wabash Valley
Seismic Zone in INdiana.
http://www.cusec.org/S_zones/Wabash/index.htm
III) Link to AISC website for AISC seismic provisions 2005
http://www.aisc.org/Content/ContentGroups/Documents/2005_seismic_provisions/SeismicProv_web.pdf
IV) Link to AISC Publication on prequalified connections for Special
Moment Frames
http://www.aisc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Free_Downloads&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=31539
IV) List of free downloads from AISC website
http://www.aisc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Free_Downloads&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=16&ContentID=22530
V) Link to OpenSEES website
http://opensees.berkeley.edu/OpenSees/user.html
VI) Link to ABAQUS
Log into interstate
server using the command: ssh interstate.ecn.purdue.edu
Launch ABAQUS using /usr/opt/bin/abaqus cae &
VI) SAP 200X and MASTAN2 can be accessed from the computers in the ECN
network (I think).