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Record W4410695900 · doi:10.1002/eqe.4372

Seismic Design of Steel Chevron and Split‐X Concentrically Braced Frames

2025· article· en· W4410695900 on OpenAlex
Bardia Mahmoudi, Ali Imanpour

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Bibliographic record

VenueEarthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSeismic Performance and Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsChevron (anatomy)BraceStructural engineeringBraced frameDeflection (physics)EngineeringBeam (structure)Seismic analysisNonlinear systemGeologyFrame (networking)Mechanical engineering

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ABSTRACT This paper aims to (1) investigate how various design parameters affect seismic response of steel chevron and split‐X braced frames, (2) advance understanding of their seismic behaviour and (3) propose new system‐specific guidelines for accurately estimating their seismic demands and for achieving enhanced seismic performance. Initially, 12 frames are selected and designed in accordance with Canadian design provisions. Frames are numerically modelled with a fibre‐based technique, and nonlinear response history analysis is performed to evaluate the effect of key design parameters on their seismic behaviour, including drift response, beam deflection, brace axial force, column moment demand and beam yielding. Subsequently, 380 additional frames are generated by adjusting the brace cross‐sections of the initial set. These frames are then dynamically analysed to develop mathematical expressions capable of predicting column flexural demands and identifying the location of drift concentration. Furthermore, design recommendations are proposed based on the results of dynamic analyses for accurately estimating beam demands in split‐X braced frames and in chevron braced frames with elastic and yielding beams.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.260
Threshold uncertainty score0.954

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Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.191
Teacher spread0.187 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it