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Preliminary study on a composite steel slit damper

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A steel slit damper has been used to enhance the seismic performance of structures with several advantages. The damper can be easily manufactured at a low cost. Furthermore, it can dissipate a significant amount of seismic energy through the stable hysteretic behavior of steel. This study presents a preliminary investigation of the development of a composite steel slit damper that can respond effectively at multiple levels of seismic loading. The performance of the prototype composite steel slit damper is investigated in both experimental and analytical ways. In the experiments, the specimen shows the stable hysteretic response with sufficient ductility, where the multi-phased response is observed in the incremental-amplitude cyclic loading case. Furthermore, a nonlinear numerical analysis that combines both kinematic hardening and isotropic hardening models can reliably describe such characteristics.

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This study was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education (2016R1A6A1A03012812).

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  1. School of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Kyeonggi-do, Korea

    Jinkyu Kim

  2. Department of Architectural Engineering, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea

    Min-Cheol Kim

  3. Department of ICT Integrated Safe Ocean Smart Cities Engineering, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea

    Dong-Keon Kim

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Jinkyu Kim obtained his M.S. degree from the School of Architectural Engineering at Korea University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo. He worked at the Korea University and Korea Institute of Disaster and Safety as a Research Professor and a Senior Researcher, respectively. At present, he is a Research Professor at Hanyang University, Kyeonggi-do, Korea. His research interests cover the area of computational mechanics, analytical mechanics, finite element analysis, dynamics, and vibration.

Min-Cheol Kim is a Master student at the Department of Architecture Engineering, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea. His research interests cover the area of finite element analysis, plasticity modeling, and earthquake engineering.

Dong-Keon Kim obtained his M.S. degree from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He then obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo. He worked as a Senior Researcher at the Central Research Institute at Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. At present, he is an Associate Professor at Dong-A University, Busan, Korea. His research interests include the area of continuum damage mechanics, finite element analysis, plasticity modeling, and earthquake engineering.

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Kim, J., Kim, MC. & Kim, DK. Preliminary study on a composite steel slit damper. J Mech Sci Technol 35, 3931–3942 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-021-0806-7

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