Abstract
This paper describes the shaking table performance of a half-scale two-story steel moment frame with asymmetric friction connections (AFCs) at the column bases and at the beam ends. The dynamic properties of the test structure are determined using snap-back tests. The behavior of the test frame to ground motions was consistent with standard methods to estimate peak displacements, and residual displacements. When beam ends and the base-column joints were modelled by trilinear and bilinear hysteresis loops respectively, the response with time matched numerical simulations well. Residual drifts were <0.2% for peak inter-story drifts up to 3%, and <0.7% for peak inter-story drifts of 6.0% and the structure was able to manually restraightened.
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