Are UBBs suitable for use in retrofit?
Yes. UBBs have been used for dozens of retrofits in the US, of both steel and reinforced-concrete buildings. UBBs are particularly attractive structural elements for seismic retrofit because of their reliable hysteretic behavior, which results in clearly definable forces from the braces for capacity design of existing critical portions of the structure.
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