Investigation of joist floor diaphragm flexibility on inelastic behavior of steel braced structures

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• 作者：M.A. Hadianfard ; S. Sedaghat
• 关键词：Rigid floor ; Flexible diaphragm ; Concrete joist floor ; Braced steel structures ; Nonlinear seismic response
• 刊名：Scientia Iranica
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：June, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：20
• 期：3
• 页码：445-453
• 全文大小：1157 K

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The flexibility of floor diaphragms has a significant influence on the behavior of building structures. Commonly, in analyzing structures, floor diaphragms are considered rigid. This assumption distributes lateral loads between the resistant elements according to their rigidities, and decreases the degree of freedom that creates easier analysis. However, in steel structures with braced frames and long span floors, diaphragms usually behave flexibly. The seismic responses of such structures vary to the expected response of typical rigid floor structures. Ignoring the effects of diaphragm flexibility can lead to non-economic or unsafe structural design. In this paper, the nonlinear responses of braced steel buildings with flexible concrete block-joist floor diaphragms are investigated under both static lateral load and dynamic ground motion, and they are compared with the responses of structures with the assumption of rigid diaphragms. This study demonstrates that span ratio is an important parameter in the flexibility of floor diaphragms, and if this ratio exceeds three, the variation of results between the two assumptions of flexible and rigid diaphragms may not be ignored. In addition, results show that diaphragm flexibility changes the seismic response of the structures and linear analysis is not sufficient to explain this behavior.