Experimental tests on real-scale EBF structures with horizontal and vertical links.
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SUBMITTER: Caprili S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6231045 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
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Experimental tests on real-scale EBF structures with horizontal and vertical links.
Caprili Silvia S Morelli Francesco F Mussini Nicola N Salvatore Walter W
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The paper presents data achieved during an experimental test campaign executed on real-scale one storey/one bay EBF steel structures with vertical and horizontal links. Experimental tests were executed in displacement control by applying cyclic loading histories following ECCS45 protocol and constant amplitude-imposed displacements. Data provide indications concerning the energy dissipated by each prototype during tests, the corresponding shear force - angular distortion curves of the dissipativ ...[more]
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