Abstract:
In this study, a nine-story braced steel frame structure located in a region with a seismic intensity of 8 degree was selected as the prototype structure. The seismic resilience of uncontrolled steel frame (SF), steel frame with buckling restrained brace (SFBRB), steel frame with viscous fluid damper (SFVFD), and steel frame with parallel double-stage yielding buckling restrained brace (SFPDYBRB) were compared. In terms of maximum inter-story drift ratio (MIDR), the MIDRs of SFVFD, SFBRB, and SFPDYBRB were 19.7%, 18.3%, and 26.8% lower than that of SF under the design basis earthquake (DBE), respectively. Under the maximum considered earthquake (MCE), the corresponding MIDRs were reduced by 14.2%, 25.5%, and 28.4%, respectively. In terms of maximum absolute floor acceleration (MAFA), the MAFAs of SFBRB and SFPDYBRB were 30.0% and 12.0% larger than that of SF under DBE, respectively. The corresponding MAFAs were increased by 14.8% and 11.6% under MCE, respectively. Only SFVFD achieved the effectively control of MAFA with values of 19.6% and 16.1% under DBE and MCE, respectively. PDYBRB demonstrated the best control effort of MIDR under both DBE and MCE. Although it led to a certain increase in MAFA compared to SF, the corresponding MAFAs were reduced by 13.8% and 2.8% compared to those of SFBRB under DBE and MCE, respectively. The resilience levels of repair time for all four structures were level 1. The repair cost of SFPDYBRB was 16.2% lower than that of SFBRB under DBE, and it was the lowest under MCE, being 8.4% lower than that of SFVFD. These indicated that PDYBRB overcame the drawbacks of BRB under DBE and VFD under MCE on the improvement of seismic resilience of structures. The resilience levels of repair time for the three damping structures were all improved from level 0 for SF to level 1. The repair times for SF, SFVFD, SFBRB, and SFPDYBRB were 32.7, 19.2, 26.0, and 19.4 days under DBE, respectively. Under MCE, the correspondingly repair times were 147.9, 94.5, 76.1, and 72.4 days, respectively. SFPDYBRB exhibited a comparable control effect on repair time to SFVFD under DBE and demonstrated the best control effect of repair time under MCE. In summary, PDYBRB has certain advantages in improving the seismic resilience of structures.