August 2006 Buckling and Fracture of Concentric Braces Under Inelastic Cyclic Loading By Benjamin V. Fell Graduate Research Assistant University of California at Davis Amit M. Kanvinde Assistant Professor University of California at Davis Gregory G. Deierlein Professor, Director of John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center Stanford University Andrew T. Myers Graduate Research Assistant Stanford University Xiangyang Fu Graduate Research Assistant University of California at Davis ____________________________________________________________________________ (A copy of this report can be downloaded for personal use for a nominal fee from www.steeltips.org)