On bi-skew braces and brace blocks

L. N. Childs defined a bi-skew brace to be a skew brace such that if we swap the role of the two operations, then we find again a skew brace.In this paper, we give a systematic analysis of bi-skew braces. We study nilpotency and solubility, and connections between bi-skew braces and set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation. Further, we deal with Byott's conjecture in the case of bi-skew braces, and we use bi-skew braces as a tool to solve a classification problem proposed by L. Vendramin.In the final part, we investigate brace blocks, defined by A. Koch to be families of group operations on a given set such that any two of them yield a bi-skew brace. We provide a characterisation of brace blocks, illustrate how all known constructions in literature follow in a natural way from our characterisation, and give several new examples.     

地震作用下摩擦耗能减震结构优化

提出了地震作用下摩擦耗能支撑参数优化的一种新的数学模型。它的特点是在给定的几条地震波作用下,在满足框架的规范层间位移角限值要求下,框架各层安装的耗能支撑刚度之和最小,从而实现安装较少的耗能装置而能达到相同的抗震要求。本文利用遗传算法求解该优化问题,并编制了基于遗传算法的几条地震波分别作用下的摩擦耗能框架结构支撑参数弹塑性动力优化分析程序GAOFF。最后给出了一6层框架在三条地震波分别输入下的优化算例,分析结果表明本文方法是有效的。     

Modelización numérica del comportamiento estructural cíclico de barras esbeltas de acero con pandeo restringido

This work presents a numerical model of the cyclic structural behavior of dissipative buckling-restrained braces, commonly used as an alternative to classical concentric braces for seismic protection of building frames and other structures. Such devices are usually composed of a slender steel core embedded in a stockiest casing that is intended to prevent its buckling when it is under compression. The casing is made either of mortar or steel, and a sliding interface is interposed between the core and the casing to prevent excessive shear stress transfer. The behavior of the steel core is described by a damage and plasticity model; the behavior of the mortar casing is described by an isotropic damage model and the sliding behavior of the interface is described by a contact penalty model. These 3 models are implemented in the Abaqus software package following an explicit formulation. In a previous article (published in an earthquake engineering journal) the model was briefly described, its ability to reproduce the cyclical behavior of buckling-restrained braces was preliminarily pointed out and their results were satisfactorily compared with those of experimental tests. The aim of this paper is to describe the model thoroughly and to present new judgments about its usefulness.