Non-Destructive Hardness Testing Method to Determinethe Amount of Plastic Strain in Cyclically Deformed Structural Steel Elements

Nashid, Hassan; Ferguson, W. G.; Seal, Chris; Clifton, G. Charles; Hodgson, M.; MacRae, Gregory A.; Choi, Jin Hee

doi:10.3850/978-981-07-7137-9_082

Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Structural Steel Conference (PSSC 2013) 2013

DOI: 10.3850/978-981-07-7137-9_082

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Non-Destructive Hardness Testing Method to Determinethe Amount of Plastic Strain in Cyclically Deformed Structural Steel Elements

Hassan Nashid¹,

W. G. Ferguson²,

Chris Seal³

et al.

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Non-destructive method to investigate the hardness-plastic strain relationship in cyclically deformed structural steel elements

Nashid

Ferguson

Clifton

et al. 2014

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A non-destructive hardness testing method is being developed to determine plastic strain in steel elements that have been subjected to inelastic seismic loading. The focus of this study is on the active links of eccentrically braced frames (EBFs). The 2010/2011 Christchurch earthquake series, especially the very intense February 22 shaking, was the first earthquake worldwide to push complete EBF systems into their inelastic state, generating a moderate to high level of plastic strain in EBF active links for a range of buildings from 3 to 23 storeys in height. Plastic deformation was confined to the active links. This raised two important questions: 1) what was the extent of plastic deformation; and 2) what effect does that have to post-earthquake steel properties? To answer these questions a range of actions is being taken. A non-destructive hardness test method is being developed to determine a relationship between hardness and plastic strain inactive link beams. Active links from the earthquake affected, 23-storey Pacific Tower building in Christchurch has been hardness and material property tested to determine the changes in the steel, and cyclic testing of active links to defined levels of inelastic demand is underway. Test results to date show clear evidence that the hardness based method is able to give a good relationship between hardness measurements and plastic strain. This paper presents recent significant findings from this project. The principal of these is the discovery that hot rolled steel tested beams, all carry manufacturing induced plastic strains, in regions of the webs, of up to 5%.

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Non-destructive method to investigate the hardness-plastic strain relationship in cyclically deformed structural steel elements

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