Metal shear panels for seismic protection of buildings: Recent findings and perspectives

This paper describes recent experimental researches carried out on metal shear panels to be employed as dampers for seismic protection of new and existing buildings. Three typologies of shear panels are presented, which have been conceived with different strategies to mitigate the detrimental effects provoked by buckling phenomena. For each solution, experimental results are provided together with design issues. Also, some remarks on the technological aspects of the devices are highlighted in order to limit the adoption of bad details that could jeopardize the structural performance of the system. In the whole, the obtained outcomes provide interesting information opening new frontiers in the field of research on dissipative metal shear panels.