The chevron braced frames designed without considering the unbalanced force induced in floor beams tend to become unstable when they are subjected to a seismic load. To enhance the seismic performance of OCBF chevron braced frames the effect the following three retrofit schemes are investigated: buckling-restrained braces, zipper columns, V-shaped cables. According to analysis results of unretrofitted model structures, collapse mechanism occurred in a certain story when they were subjected to design level seismic load. However in the retrofitted structures the plastic hinges were distributed in many stories, and the amount of plastic deforrnation was also decreased.

The purpose of this paper is to determine the optimal placement of MR dampers for the vibration control of building structures. The dynamic characteristics of Bingham model, Simple Bouc-Wen model, Simple Bouc•Wen model with Mass Element and Spencer model for the modeling of MR dampers, were investigated. By performing the numerical analysis of SDOF system excited by harmonic, white noise, and seismic load, the type and amplitude of excitation which are important design factors of MR dampers were considered. Finally, Four cases for placement of MR dampers installed at 20-story building structure were considered and the corresponding results indicate that the case installing MR dampers sequentially at the story with maximum inter-story drifts provides the best performance.

This study is on the development of energy dissipation control algorithms for vibration control of a 76 -story building under wind excitation. Velocity feedback, bang-bang, and energy gain control algorithms are proposed based on the Lyapunov stability theory and the performance of them are evaluated and compared. Saturation problem is considered in the design of velocity feedback and energy gain control algorithms, and chattering problem in bang-bang control is solved by using boundary layer. Numerical results show that the proposed control algorithms can dissipate the structural energy induced by wind loads, and thus they provide good control performance.

In the capacity spectrum method (CSM), the peak response of an inelastic system under a given earthquake load is estimated transforming the system into the equivalent elastic one. This paper presented estimating the peak inelastic response is evaIuated by the CSM. The equivalent period and damping are calculated using the ATC-40, Gülkan, Kowalsky, and Iwan methods, and the performance points are obtained according the procedure B of ATC-40. Analysis results indicate that the ATC-40 method generaIly underestimates the peak response, while the Gülkan and Kowalsky methods overestimate the responses. The Iwan method produces the values between those by the ATC-40 method and the Gülkan and Kowalsky methods, and estimates the reponses relatively closer to the exact ones. Further, it is found that the Kowalsky method gives the negative equivalent damping ratios depending on the hardening ratios, and thereby can not be used to estimate the responses in some cases.

Recently the construction of residential building faces many difficulties due to the shortage of building materials and works. Simplifying the stage of processing and assembling reinforcing rods and increasing the efficiency of them in reinforced concrete construction can be used to settle the difficulties. In the respect, structural wire-fabric is utilized. The purpose of this study, instead of deformed steel bars, to examine the utilization of slab joint, which is accompanied with a large deformation in the structure subjected to seismic loads, to suggest reinforcing method which is efficient, easily constructible and structurally safe. The results are as follows ; 1. The ductility capacity of slab reinforced by welded wire fabric was less than with deformed bar in discontinuous slab joint. To enhance the ductility capacity, deformed bar should be used with welded wire fabric for the longitudinal reinforcement. 2. It is avoid to use loop welded wire fabric as the longitudinal reinforcement in wall, because the strength and ductility capacity showed lower value than that with deformed bar. 3. Using welded wire fabric in wall structures, it need deformed bar reinforcement with sufficient anchorage length.

Earthquake resistance design has been developed many countries like Japan, USA, Mexico, New Zealand etc., which countries have experienced many earthquakes. Nowadays, earthquake resistance design has come into worldwide use. In Korea, the seismic design regulations have been established since 1988 in order to minimize the economic losses. Recently performance based design method has been adopted as a new Earthquake resistance design method. These regulations, however, are targeted for newly constructed buildings, In Korea, there are no regulations for existing buildings that built before 1988. On the other hand, in Japan and USA, the seismic performance evaluation is coded. In Japan, the evaluation index which can measure seismic performance has been made. So, we need to prepare the regulations that evaluate the seismic performance, furthermore proper retrofitting design guideline needs to be proposed when remodeling old buildings. In this research, various seismic performance evaluation methods which are being used in Japan and USA are reviewed in order to establish seismic performance evaluation index for those existing old structures in Korea.

Corrosion of rebar causes a severe problem that causes extensive damage to various types of structures. While considerable research has been carried out on measuring the amount of corrosion and methods to slow the progress of corrosion, a qualitative measurement technique that can measure the amount of corrosion of reinforcing steel need to be developed. The purpose of this research is to develop a new tech-nique to measure the corrosion level of rebar using accumulated thermal data. Accumulated thermal data were gathered using infrared cam-era and digitized to distinguish the difference between various corrosion levels of rebar. The test results shows that the higher level of corro-sion displays the higher level of temperature.