ABSTRACT
Structural earthquake-resistant technique mainly absorbs seismic energy to achieve the purpose of earthquake resistance through the transformation process of the building pillar and beam, and resists destructive effects of earthquake depending on the property of structural components. Kobe earthquake shows that such design technique controls the earthquake-resistant property with difficulty, reflecting on the building’s significance (Song et al. 2008), and such traditional structural earthquake-resistant technique presents certain defects. On the basis of such earthquake-resistant technique, it becomes necessary to make the size of the structural supporting member large enough to enhance the anti-seismic level of buildings, but this will increase construction costs and have effects on the appearance of buildings. Energy dissipation earthquakeresistant technique is a new earthquake-resistant technique, which mainly assimilates earthquake
energy with help of energy dissipation damper. During an earthquake, these anti-seismic apparatuses will sustain seismic load in advance of other structural components and yield first, and assimilate earthquake energy depending on the alternate load lag to protect the safety of major structures and buildings. Energy dissipation earthquakeresistant technique has become a development tendency (Mitsuru et al. 1995, Zhou et al. 2001, Zhou et al. 1999).
