Building retrofit by incorporating an energy dissipation system

Abstract

In areas of high seismic hazard, there are structures that may require structural reinforcement to improve their performance. An alternative to carry out these reinforcements is the incorporation of passive energy systems. The purpose of this work is to apply a design methodology proposed by the author to a case study. The devices are designed and subsequently the proposed method is contrasted with non-linear dynamic analysis according to the requirements of the American standard ASCE / SEI 7-16. For seismic excitation, two groups of seven records representative of the site area are chosen scaled by spectral adjustment. Based on the consideration of several response parameters, the efficiency of the proposed design procedure is shown