EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF STEEL BRACES INSTALLED WITH INTENTIONAL ECCENTRICITY USING GUSSET PLATE CONNECTIONS

The present paper proposes an improved design of conventional buckling braces (CBBs) by introducing intentional eccentricity along the brace length. The proposed brace is named the Brace with Intentional Eccentricity (BIE). Due to the inherent action moment caused by the eccentrically applied axial force, the BIE bends uniformly form small story drifts and sustains tri-liner behavior under tension…