BASIC EXPERIMENT STUDY USING THE NEW LOADING METHOD FOR THE STEEL SUBASSEMBLY OF PASSIVELY-CONTROLLED BUILDING WITH CONCRETE SLAB

Abstract

Frame of passively-controlled building is typically composed of steel beam, column, gusset plate and concrete slab. Its behavior is determined by the interaction of the nonlinear behavior of each component. Authors have proposed a new test method to research the behavior of frame of passively-controlled building, and carried out tests for bare girder using it. In this paper, we will carry out tests applying the test method to the subassembly with concrete slab. We investigate the behavior of the beam, column, and gusset-plate to clarify how the concrete slab affects the frame behavior in the passively-controlled building.