Effect of vierendeel panel width and vertical truss spacing ratio in staggered truss framing system under earthquake loads

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of vierendeel panel width and vertical truss spacing ratio in an inelastic behavior of the stf system due to earthquake loads. the stf system is applied to a six-storey building that serves as apartments [2]. the stf system is used in the building in the transverse direction (n-s direction), while in the longitudinal direction (w-e direction) the building system uses the special moment resisting frame. the structural behavior was evaluated using nonlinear pushover and time history analyses. the results showed that by increasing the ratio of vierendeel panel width and vertical truss spacing, the ductility of the structure was increased. based on the performance evaluation, the ratio of the vierendeel panel width and vertical truss spacing on the stf buildings that provided satisfactory performance was more or equal to 1.6. the ultimate drift obtained from non-linear time history analysis was smaller than the pushover analysis. this result showed that the static nonlinear pushover analysis was quite conservative in predicting the behavior of the six-storey building in an inelastic condition.