Earthquake Resistant Spatial Structures

The study deals with aluminum alloy spatial truss walls with fuse type joint connectionssubjected to horizontal earthquake waves. The fuse type connection prevents the brittle collapseinduced by the member buckling and the tensile fracture of the weld connection. The proposedmethod using the property of the energy conservation can statically predict the horizontalmaximum seismic response displacement at the top of the wall.

Keywords:

Truss walls , Fuse type ball joint connections , Steel bolts , Aluminum alloy struts , System trusses , Prediction static method of seismic responses