Browsing Study Areas by Subject "damage avoidance"

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Experimental testing of a rocking timber shear wall with slip-friction connectors

Loo, Wei Yuen; Kun, Chern; Quenneville, P.; Chouw, Nawawi (John Wiley, 2014-01-24)

Allowing a structure to uplift and rock during an earthquake is one way in which activated forces can be capped and damage to the structure avoided or minimised. Slip-friction connectors (also known as slotted-bolt connectors) ...
A low damage and ductile rocking timber wall with passive energy dissipation devices

Loo, Wei; Quenneville, P.; Chow, , N. (Techno-Press, 2015-07)

In conventional seismic design, structures are assumed to be fixed at the base. To reduce the impact of earthquake loading, while at the same time providing an economically feasible structure, minor damage is tolerated in ...