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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2022
Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Benjamin Jacob Sitler, Tokyo, JP;
Masao Terashima, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Takeuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Terazawa, Tokyo, JP;
Ryota Matsui, Sapporo, JP;
NIPPON STEEL ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A buckling-restrained brace includes a core and a restrainer, the core includes a first steel plate having a first yield point, a second steel plate having a second yield point different from the first yield point, and a third steel plate having a third yield point different from the first yield point, the first steel plate is sandwiched between the second steel plate and the third steel plate, and a length of a first yielding segment of the first steel plate in the axial direction is different from a length of the second yielding segment of the second steel plate in the axial direction, and is different from a length of the third yielding segment of the third steel plate in the axial direction.