Publications de Dimitrios Lignos

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Low-damage steel structures for enhanced life-cycle seismic performance

During an earthquake, steel frame buildings with bracings are prone to high absolute floor acceleration demands, thereby causing damage to acceleration-sensitive non-structural elements and building content. Inelastic deformations in steel bracings and/or ...

ERNST & SOHN2022

Experimental Study of Sliding Friction Damper for High-Performance Steel Structures

Dimitrios Lignos, Martina Paronesso

Passive energy dissipation devices are widely utilized in buildings to minimize structural and non-structural damage under seismic loading. Commonly used devices include, among others, yield, viscous and friction dampers. While the use of yield dampers, su ...

Earthquake Engineering Association2020

Hysteretic Behavior of Moment-Resisting Frames Considering Slab Restraint and Framing Action

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady, Hammad El Jisr

This paper examines the influence of framing action and slab continuity on the hysteretic behavior of composite steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) by means of high-fidelity continuum finite-element (CFE) analyses of two-bay subsystems and typical crucifo ...

2020

Proposed methodology for building-specific earthquake loss assessment including column residual axial shortening

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

This paper proposes methodological developments for quantifying the impact of residual axial shortening of first-story steel columns on earthquake loss estimations in steel moment-resisting frame (MRF) buildings. A new formulation is proposed that accounts ...

2020

Proposed Updates to the ASCE 41 Nonlinear Modeling Parameters for Wide-Flange Steel Columns in Support of Performance-Based Seismic Engineering

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady, Alexander Riley Hartloper

Nonlinear static and dynamic analyses are utilized by engineers for performance-based seismic risk evaluation of new and existing structures. In this context, nonlinear component modeling criteria are typically based on ASCE 41 guidelines. Experiments on w ...

2019

Best-fit constraint equations for coupling mixed-dimension simulation models with wide flange cross sections

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Alexander Riley Hartloper

A new mixed-dimension coupling method is formulated for members with (bi-symmetric) wide flange cross sections based on the idea of least squares transformations between two sets of point clouds. This coupling method imposes the minimum number of constrain ...

ELSEVIER2022

A Displacement-Based Fiber Element to Simulate Interactive Lateral Torsional and Local Buckling in Steel Members

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Diego Isidoro Heredia Rosa

Collapse in steel structures is often controlled by loss of load carrying capacity of steel columns due to interactive buckling, which involves interactions between local and global (i.e., lateral and lateral torsional) buckling. Commonly used concentrated ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2023

Backbone curve variations on steel building seismic response

Dimitrios Lignos

A 4-story steel moment-frame building designed according to ASCE 7 was used in a numerical parameter study to assess the effects of modeling features on peak drift demands. Features studied included strength, stiffness, ductility, and degradation along wit ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2023

Guidelines on nonlinear dynamic analysis for seismic design of steel moment frames

Dimitrios Lignos

Nonlinear dynamic (response history) analysis is being used increasingly in design practice for the performance-based seismic design of buildings. In contrast to nonlinear static analysis, dynamic analyses require more explicit modeling of cyclic response ...

2018

Guidelines on Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Steel and Concrete Moment Frames

Dimitrios Lignos

Nonlinear dynamic (response history) analysis is being used increasingly in design practice for the performance-based seismic design of new buildings. In contrast to nonlinear static analysis, dynamic analysis requires more explicit modeling of cyclic resp ...

2016

Experimental Evaluation and Numerical Modeling of Wide-Flange Steel Columns Subjected to Constant and Variable Axial Load Coupled with Lateral Drift Demands

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

This paper presents results from an experimental evaluation on the pre- and post-buckling behavior of 12 steel wide-flange cantilever columns under axial load and lateral drift demands. The influence of several loading and geometric parameters, including t ...

2020

Proposed Panel Zone Model for Seismic Design of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady, Andronikos Skiadopoulos

This paper proposes a new mechanics-based model for the seismic design of beam-to-column panel zone joints in steel moment-resisting frames. The model is based on realistic shear stress distributions retrieved from continuum finite element (CFE) analyses o ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2021

Uniaxial material model with softening for simulating the cyclic behavior of steel tubes in concrete-filled steel tube beam-columns

Dimitrios Lignos

Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.This paper presents a new uniaxial constitutive material formulation with softening for simulating the inelastic behavior of steel rectangular tubes in concrete-filled steel tu ...

2024

Uniaxial Cyclic and Tensile Tests on Structural Metallic Materials

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Selimcan Ozden

Experimental data is imperative to characterize the behavior of materials used in structural analysis models. The aim of this data paper is to establish a database of material-scale uniaxial experiments, primarily conducted at EPFL, to assist with simulati ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2023

Effect of thermomechanical treatment and microstructure on pseudo-elastic behavior of Fe-Mn-Si-Cr-Ni-(V, C) shape memory alloy

Dimitrios Lignos, Christian Leinenbach

This study systematically investigated the effects of heat and thermomechanical treatments on the pseudo-elastic behavior of an Fe-based shape-memory alloy (Fe???17Mn???5Si???10Cr???4Ni-1(V, C) %wt.). First, samples were solution-annealed at 1000 ???C for ...

2022

Full-Scale Testing of Deep Wide-Flange Steel Columns under Multiaxis Cyclic Loading: Loading Sequence, Boundary Effects, and Lateral Stability Bracing Force Demands

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

This paper discusses the findings from 10 full-scale steel column tests subjected to multiaxis cyclic loading. The columns use deep wide-flange cross sections typically seen in steel moment-resisting frames designed in seismic regions. The effects of bound ...

2018

Full-Scale Cyclic Testing of Deep Slender Wide-Flange Steel Beam-Columns under Unidirectional and Bidirectional Lateral Drift Demands

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

Deep and slender wide-flange steel beam-columns are commonly used in steel special moment frames (SMFs) in North America. These sections provide large moment-of-inertia required to satisfy the design code’s drift limits while keeping the column steel weigh ...

International Association of Earthquake Engineering2017

The use of ductile steel fuses for the seismic protection of acceleration sensitive non- structural components: Numerical and Experimental verification

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

Recent seismic events have showcased the vulnerability of non-structural components to even low- or moderate-intensity earthquakes that occur far more frequently than design-basis ones. Thus, community-critical buildings, such as hospitals, telecommunicati ...

EEME2023

A Multiaxial Plasticity Model with Softening for Simulating Inelastic Local Buckling in Steel Beam Columns under Monotonic Loading through Fiber Elements

Dimitrios Lignos, Diego Isidoro Heredia Rosa

This paper proposes a novel multiaxial plasticity model for 3-dimensional nonlinear static analysis of steel frame buildings with fiber-based beam-column elements. The proposed constitutive formulation is expressed within the framework of rate-independent ...

2025

Experimental Evaluation of Steel Columns under Seismic Hazard-Consistent Collapse Loading Protocols

Dimitrios Lignos

This paper presents results from 21 large-scale experiments on steel columns that examined their collapse behavior as related to steel moment resisting frames (MRFs). The test specimens included wide-flange and square hollow structural shapes (HSS) and wer ...

2021