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External Bracing of Existing Buildings to Reduce Drift Under Lateral Load
by
Meng Gong
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE
August 2013
Copyright 2013 Meng Gong
Object Description
| Title | External bracing of existing buildings to reduce drift under lateral load |
| Author | Gong, Meng |
| Author email | gongmeng03@gmail.com;gongmeng03@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Building Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Building Science |
| School | School of Architecture |
| Date defended/completed | 2013-08-04 |
| Date submitted | 2013-08-04 |
| Date approved | 2013-08-04 |
| Restricted until | 2013-08-04 |
| Date published | 2013-08-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Schierle, G. Goetz |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Carlson, Anders Noble, Douglas |
| Abstract | The seismic code for structures is becoming more and more strict due to the knowledge people have gained from learning about previous damage from earthquakes. Retrofits that are happening today in order to comply with the increasingly restricted codes are highly expensive and cumbersome on the existing structure. In this thesis, an external tensile structure system applied to the building façade will be introduced for seismic retrofit of existing commercial buildings in downtown Los Angeles; looking at the possibility of providing an optimized retrofit system for drift reduction while minimizing the amount of steel consumed as the impact on construction cost and visual artistic impact. One-quarter of all buildings in downtown Los Angeles are between 10 stories to 30 stories, and thus the group for this study will include testing for typical midrise buildings in order to find the optimal retrofit system. |
| Keyword | seismic; retrofit; brace |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Gong, Meng |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-GongMeng-1944.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume7/etd-GongMeng-1944-0.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | External Bracing of Existing Buildings to Reduce Drift Under Lateral Load by Meng Gong A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE August 2013 Copyright 2013 Meng Gong |
