ABSTRACT
The last decade has seen major initiatives for developing new strategies for the seismic retrofit of existing structures. As part of this initiative there has been increased research activity on the implementation of materials not traditionally within the structural domain. Examples include high-purity aluminum (De Matteis et al. 2009) and fiber-reinforced composites (Landolfo et al. 2009). In this spirit, steels benefitting from TransformationInduced Plasticity (TRIP) merit investigation for passive-damping applications where space and/or weight efficiency are imperative. Such steels have long been known to have unusually large uniform and fracture ductility accompanying high yield strengths (>1000 N/mm2), producing significant energy dissipation per unit volume during plastic deformation (Zackay et al. 1967).
