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Star Seismic Brochure

Download the April 2011 Brochure - PDF

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Seismic Design of Buckling-Restrained Braced Frames
with step-by-step procedures and examples.

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Seminars to help with step-by-step procedures and examples.

 

POWERCAT™ Detail drawings and sample connection schedule

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WILDCAT™ Detail drawings and sample connection schedule

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Star Seismic Modular Systems Detail drawings and sample connection schedule

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See our brace in action in a simulation of the Northridge, CA Earthquake of 1995. To view this movie you need to have a current version of flash player installed. This can be accomplished by visiting the Adobe FlashPlayer Download Page


Test shown in the movie was conducted at UCSD's CalTran's SRMD Laboratory at the University of California at San Diego. For complete test results, please give us a call at 435-940-9222.


Buckling Restrained Braced Frame (BRBF) Experimental Program Click here to view movies.



Buckling Restrained Brace
Seismic Building Codes
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Other buckling restrained brace systems include CoreBrace and Nippon Steel’s unbonded brace. Other lateral systems include base isolation, friction dampers, special moment frames (SMF), special concentric base frame (SCBF), eccentric brace frame (EBF), SMF shear wall and hysteresis dampers.