Performance-based Seismic Design Of Building Structures Using A Passive Energy Dissipation Device

Abstract

Recently, several attempts in the earthquake engineering field could find their ways into numerous innovative systems that provide the structure with a specific performance under a given earthquake level. Among others, the most known systems are: (a) seismic isolation systems, which uncouple the superstructure from its substructure leading to a “conceptual separation between the horizontal and vertical resisting systems” (Palermo et al. 2014b); (b) tuned mass damping systems, which are used to minimize the excitation of a structure caused by high lateral vibrations (Hoang et al. 2016); (c) active and semi-active systems, which adjust the mechanical properties of a structure in accordance with the measured response (Datta 2010b); (d) dissipative systems, which are inserted in the superstructure in order to minimize the seismic effects in the structure through their energy dissipation capacity (Chopra and Anil 2001). Although the listed systems have been well integrated into literature and practice, none of them could entirely fulfil the seismic performance