Experimental Studies on Hysteretic Behavior of Buckling-restrained Metallic Connecting Plate of Hinge

Abstract

The buckling-restrained metallic connecting plate was as a part of assembled joint of steel plastic-deformation controllable hinge, its hysteretic behavior was the key to plastic energy dissipation of assembled joint of steel plastic-deformation controllable hinge. In order to investigate the hysteretic behavior of bucklingrestrained metallic connecting plate, quasi-static reciprocating experiment of two specimens of buckling-restrained metallic connecting plate were carried out. The hysteretic force-displacement curves, skeleton curve, failure modes, ductility and energy dissipation were analyzed. The results show that the buckling-restrained metallic connecting plate has reasonable failure modes and higher hysteretic behavior, ductility and energy dissipation capacity.