Study on Seismic Performance of Wooden Column in Ancient Buildings under Secondary Loading

Abstract

In order to provide some scientific references for the restoration of ancient timber buildings, the wooden column was subjected to a secondary load through the quasi-static test. The seismic performance parameters of wooden column such as the damage of the wooden column, P-Δ hysteretic curve, P-Δ skeleton curve and stiffness degradation were analyzed. The test results showed that the wooden column could still maintain the lateral resistance capacity after the secondary load under the action of low reversed cyclic load. The hysteretic curve of the wooden column had a certain degree of a pinch effect, which indicated that the semi-rigid characteristic of the wooden column was reserved after the secondary loading. The lateral stiffness of the wooden column after the secondary load decreases with the increased of the lateral displacement. The lateral stiffness decreases with the increase of displacement. It showed that the wooden column still had good seismic behavior after secondary load.