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The test specimen after the cyclic loading. |
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Outer square tube filled with pyramidal truss structures and a typical unit truss structure |
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Axial crushing of an empty square tube and reaction force-displacement curves for 3 empty tube thicknesses |
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Axial crushing of a square pyramidal truss core without the outer square tube |
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Axial crushing of square tube filled with pyramidal trusses (PCM), load-displacement curves and energy dissipation-displacement curves |
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Multi-storey building frames (a,b) and various configurations of buckling restraining braces (BRBs) (c) |
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Hollow square buckling restraining brace (BRB) for a steel-framed building structure |
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Figure 2. Standard cyclic loading protocol used in this study |
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Buckling (a,b) and fracture (c) of a buckling-restrained brace (BRB) |
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An example of a rather complex buckling restrained brace called "SLBRB" |
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Failure of the SLBRB from test and from the finite elemen model |
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Examples of buckling in a buckling-restrained brace (BRB) |
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Assembled compound structures from various simpler elements |
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Complex assembled stiffend thin-walled structure |
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A typical multi-component launcher structure |
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