Bracing is one of the main aseismic elements of steel structures. In this report, the elasto-plastic behaviors of pin ended bracings under the action of monotonous and cyclic loads are obtained analytically as well as numerically. Analysis is carried out under the following assumptions : 1. The bracing member with rectangular cross section is simplified into three points model as show in Fig. 1. 2. The stress-strain relationship of the material is as shown in Fig. 3. 3. The bracing is divided into thirty parts of line elements for calculation, and the equilibrium conditions are satisfied at each ends of elements. (See Fig.7.) 4. The longitudinal deformation ⊿l of the bracing is composed of the summation of the strain ε_<2i> at the centroidal axis and the deformation due to the deflection. (See Eq.(19).) Fig.8 shows the axial force deformation relationships under the monotonous compressive force, and Figs.11-16 show the relationships under the cyclic axial forces at the constant deformation amplitudes. Fig.8 shows that after the occurrence of buckling, the compressive resistances of the bracing decrease considerably, especially for the bracings with medium slenderness ratios. From the cyclic axial force deformation relationship obtained here, it becomes clear that for bracings with larger slenderness ratios, the ultimate compressive and tensile resistances decrease with the increase of the number of cycles, while for bracings with smaller slenderness ratios, the resistance does not decrease after the second cycle.
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