Abstract
The primary objective of IMMENSE is to acquire unique experimental data to advance our understanding on the interaction of dissipative embedded column bases (DECBs) connections with the soil and its influence on the steel MRF response. DECBs is an innovative and practical concept for capacity-designed steel frame buildings that provides significant performance boosts compared to conventional ECBs construction. The project will generate unique field data of large-scale specimens that will be tested at the soil-foundation-structure facility EUROPROTEAS facility in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The data will lead to the development of analytically derived stiffness and strength models to facilitate the seismic design of steel MRFs with DECBs. The acquired data will be used for developing and validating state-of-the-art models to exploit nonlinear soil-foundation-structure interaction for minimizing earthquake effects on steel buildings. These models will be used to benchmark the seismic risk of building archetypes within established performance-based assessment frameworks.
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