Full scale BRB testing: Dynamic Near Fault Protocols

Project: The Feasibility of Using BucklingRestrained Braces for LongSpan Bridges Sponsor: California Department of Transportation Specimen Donor: CoreBrace, LLC Several fully dynamic bucklingrestrained brace (BRB) loading protocols are applied to one of the first stainless steel yielding core BRBs to be tested. Two nearfault protocols were developed using simulated BRB demands obtained subjecting a finite element model of the Vincent Thomas Bridge (VTB), equipped with BRB elements, to nearfault pu