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Numerical study of the cyclic load behavior of AISI 316L stainless steel shear links for seismic fuse device

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This paper presents the results of nonlinear finite element analyses conducted on stainless steel shear links. Stainless steels are attractive materials for seismic fuse device especially for corrosion-aware environment such as coastal regions because they are highly corrosion resistant, have good ductility and toughness properties in combination with low maintenance requirements. This paper discusses the promising use of AISI 316L stainless steel for shear links as seismic fuse devices. Hysteresis behaviors of four stainless steel shear link specimens under reversed cyclic loading were examined to assess their ultimate strength, plastic rotation and failure modes. The nonlinear finite element analysis results show that shear links made of AISI 316L stainless steel exhibit a high level of ductility. However, it is also found that because of large over-strength ratio associated with its strain hardening process, mixed shear and flexural failure modes were observed in stainless steel shear links compared with conventional steel shear links with the same length ratio. This raises the issue that proper design requirements such as length ratio, element compactness and stiffener spacing need to be determined to ensure the full development of the overall plastic rotation of the stainless steel shear links.

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  1. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 21042, USA

    Ruipeng Li & Yunfeng Zhang

  2. State key laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Yunfeng Zhang & Le-Wei Tong

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Li, R., Zhang, Y. & Tong, LW. Numerical study of the cyclic load behavior of AISI 316L stainless steel shear links for seismic fuse device. Front. Struct. Civ. Eng. 8, 414–426 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-014-0276-4

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