Experimental Study on Hysteretic Behavior of Double-Plate Reinforced Overlapped K-Joints

Table 4

Energy dissipation details of the joints.

Specimen	S(ABC+CDA) (kN·mm)	SΔ(OBE+ODF) (kN·mm)	ηa	he	ET (kN·mm)	Ey (kN·mm)	η
K-RC	4862.8	2796.5	1.74	0.278	22369.7	605.6	36.9
K-RC1	3720.6	5168.6	0.72	0.115	27319.5	1428.9	19.2
K-CC	4510.4	2684.7	1.68	0.268	19176.5	486.8	39.34
K-CC1	5848.7	6410.8	0.91	0.145	31554.6	1787.8	17.7