ELASTIC RESPONSE OF SINGLE-STORY STEEL STRUCTURE WITH SEISMIC FLOOR SYSTEM

We have developed a new floor system to enhance seismic performance of a building structure as well as dismantlement. This floor system is built up by installing visco-elastic materials (VEM) between floor slab and beam upper flange. This paper deals with numerical analysis and shaking table test in order to verify elastic seismic response of single-steel structure equipped with the proposed floor system. From analytical and experimental studies, it is clarified that the effect of response reduction is caused by increment of damping factor and the maximum response can be predicted by the response spectrum method.