Turnbuckle braces buckle easily by the compressive load and the buckling deformation may lead to the damage of finishing material, plastic strain concentration and plastic fatigue failure. The authors have been developing a bracing system with a compression-free function using CFRP. This bracing system has a partially fibered CFRP to absorb the axial compressive deformation. In this paper, the mechanical characteristics of the braces system are investigated through full-scale tests under horizontal force loading.
