Low-Rise Shear Wall Ultimate Drift Limits

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Duffey ◽  
C. R. Farrar ◽  
A. Goldman

Drift limits for low aspect ratio reinforced concrete shear walls are investigated by reviewing the open literature for appropriate experimental data. Based on the geometry of structures designed for protective purposes and concerns regarding their response during seismic loading, data are obtained from pertinent references for which the wall aspect ratio is less than or equal to approximately 1, and for which loading is cyclic in nature (typically displacement controlled). In particular, lateral deflections at ultimate load, and at points in the softening region beyond ultimate for which the load has dropped to 90, 80, 70, 60, and 50 percent of its ultimate value, are obtained and converted to drift information. The statistical nature of the data is also investigated. For example, at ultimate load the median drift limit is 0.72 percent, and it increases to 1.84 percent when the load drops to 50 percent of its ultimate value. These data are shown to be lognormally distributed, and an analysis of variance is performed. The use of these statistics to estimate probability of failure for a shear wall structure is illustrated. Finally, a brief comparison of drift limit results with existing seismic design code requirements is presented.

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 1327-1348
Author(s):  
Cong Chen ◽  
Renjie Xiao ◽  
Xilin Lu ◽  
Yun Chen

Structure with replaceable devices is a type of earthquake resilient structure developed to restore the structure immediately after strong earthquakes. Current researches focus on one type of the replaceable device located in the structural part that is most likely to be damaged; however, plastic deformation would not be limited in a specific part but expand to other parts. To concentrate possible damage in shear wall structures, combined form of replaceable devices was introduced in this article. Based on previous studies, combined form of replaceable coupling beam and replaceable wall foot was used in a coupled shear wall. Influences of the dimension and location of the replaceable devices to the strength and stiffness of the shear wall were investigated through numerical modeling, which was verified by experimental data. Performance comparison between the shear walls with one type and combined form of replaceable devices and the conventional coupled shear wall was performed. In general, the shear wall with combined form of replaceable devices is shown to be better energy dissipated, and proper dimensions and locations of the replaceable devices should be determined.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Leonardus Setia Budi Wibowo ◽  
Dermawan Zebua

Indonesia is one of the countries in the earthquake region. Therefore, it is necessary to build earthquake-resistant buildings to reduce the risk of material and life losses. Reinforced Concrete (RC) shear walls is one of effective structure element to resist earthquake forces. Applying RC shear wall can effectively reduce the displacement and story-drift of the structure. This research aims to study the effect of shear wall location in symmetric medium-rise building due to seismic loading. The symmetric medium rise-building is analyzed for earthquake force by considering two types of structural system. i.e. Frame system and Dual system. First model is open frame structural system and other three models are dual type structural system. The frame with shear walls at core and centrally placed at exterior frames showed significant reduction more than 80% lateral displacement at the top of structure.


2011 ◽  
Vol 255-260 ◽  
pp. 2439-2443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Wen Liang ◽  
Jia Liang Kou ◽  
Ming Ke Deng

The paper explores the failure mode, failure mechanism and deformation capacity of medium-high and low-rise shear walls. The experimental results from load-tests of 5 high-performance concrete shear walls with 1.5 and 1.0 shear span ratio indicate that the shear walls deformation capacity benefits from several bar rings like a chain along boundary element in plastic hinge zone, showing that shear wall deformation capacity design is reliable to a certain extent, in that the plastic hinge zone often influences the damage level of shear walls. With the damage at different stages, the paper divides the performance of shear wall structure into three kinds: serviceability, life-safety and collapse-prevention. Accordingly, it is proposed that the performance controlling indicators for shear wall structures is composed of storey drift ratio and the rotation of plastic hinge zone, and also provides consult values for each performance level.


2012 ◽  
Vol 594-597 ◽  
pp. 2464-2469
Author(s):  
Dai Kui

Calculation of Short-leg shear walls structural system is a multi-field coupling problem. Through the research and application of short-leg shear wall structure calculation theory, based on the national codes,the short-leg shear wall design principles are established.It is discussed for the reason of the world's first short-leg shear wall structure design formation and development research. According to short-leg shear wall force characteristics, horizonal displacement is divided into destructive story drift and harmless story drift, the formula for calculating the destructive story drift is obtained, using destructive story drift angle parameters and the change of main section height to control the deformation, to control structural rigidity to ensure the structural design rational purpose.


2012 ◽  
Vol 517 ◽  
pp. 164-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Francisco Correal ◽  
Sebastian Varela

Wood frame buildings have shown good performance on past earthquakes mainly because the lateral system of those buildings was able to dissipate energy without significant loss of lateral capacity. Typically, the lateral load resisting system is provided by wood shear walls, which consist of a wood frame sheathed with wood or wood-based composites, such as Plywood or OSB panels. Taking into account the increasing forest demand for wood, there is a global need to find alternative energy-efficient, renewable and eco-friendly construction materials. Giant bamboo like Guadua Angustifolia kunt emerges as an interesting construction material, since it has a fast growing rate (3 to 4 years), high strength to weight ratio and high carbon (CO2) capture capabilities. Results of a past study conducted at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá-Colombia reported that Glued Laminated Guadua Bamboo (GLG) has mechanical properties comparable to those of the best structural timbers in Colombia. Potential applications of GLG include not only laminated beams and columns, but also structural panels to be used as a sheathing material for wood frame shear walls. A comprehensive experimental study has been performed on GLG sheathed shear walls in order to find an alternative sheathing material for wood frame buildings as well as to explore their possible application for residential and/or commercial construction in Colombia. A series of tests were conducted on full-size shear wall specimens in order to study the influence of the wall aspect ratio and the edge nail spacing on the shear wall performance. Based on cyclic tests on shear walls, it was found that the stiffness and maximum load carrying capacity of the wall increases as edge nail spacing decreases. In contrast, the displacement ductility capacity decreases, since the rotation of the panels is restricted when the edge nail spacing is reduced. Experimental results also revealed that stiffness, maximum load capacity, and ductility of the GLG sheathed shear walls are not affected by the aspect ratio of the wall. The final stage of the present study included dynamic shake-table tests on full-size one and two-story housing units using GLG sheathed shear walls. Results showed that the units had similar performance characteristics to those of OSB and Plywood sheathed shear walls, and it was concluded that wood-GLG combination could be a viable construction alternative from a structural point of view.


2013 ◽  
Vol 423-426 ◽  
pp. 1506-1510
Author(s):  
De Jian Yang ◽  
Zong Chen

The structural system and seismic performance of the composite shear wall are analyzed based on the horizontal load model tests. The test models are three groups of combined shear walls with shear span of 1.5, including an ordinary shear wall, a shear wall with vertical steel plates and a shear wall with transverse steel plates. The finite element software ABAQUS is used to build the calculation model of the shear wall structure. And the analysis the influence of steel plates to bearing capacity, ductility, and stiffness of shear wall are carried out. The research results indicate that the combination shear wall has good seismic behaviors.


2012 ◽  
Vol 193-194 ◽  
pp. 1216-1220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Huang ◽  
Li Hua Zou ◽  
Jian Mei Chen

To understand the higher modal effect on the accuracy of pushover analysis for shear wall structure, the influence of damage on the vibration characteristics of shear-wall structures is investigated. Employing the continuum technique, the shift of modal shapes and periods for the first three modes is obtained when the plastic zone exists in the bottom of the shear wall. It can be conclude that plastic zone may enhance the higher modal effect when the internal force responses of shear walls are considered. The higher modal contribution can not be neglected when computing the nonlinear earthquake responses of shear wall structures.


Earthquake is an unexpected and expensive disaster for both livelihood and economy. In the modern day construction, there has been a lot of importance to make the structure resistant against lateral loads for multi storied building. Shear walls are an option of lateral load resisting system. The Concept of designing shear wall is to provide building structure with sufficient strength and deformation capacity to sustain the demands imposed by lateral loads with adequate margin of safety. The study focuses on effect of shear wall on R.C. building at different heights. For this purpose five models of different heights 15m, 30m, 45m, 60m and 75m and with different aspect ratios of 1.33, 0.66, 0.44, 0.33 and 0.26 respectively have been considered. All the models were designed for seismic zone V. For analysis purpose response spectrum method of analysis is considered as per IS: 1893-2002. The comparative study has been done for base shear, storey displacement, storey drift and storey stiffness. Utilization of shear walls when placed at corners of the building of low aspect ratio in high rise buildings is more effective compared to the low rise buildings of higher aspect ratio, as it gives the larger base shear and lesser displacement. The storey stiffness and storey drift is greatly improved when shear wall is placed at corners of the building


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Mochammad Surya Budi Utomo

The shear wall is a vertical structural element of a structural system that serves to withstand lateral loads, whether caused by wind or earthquake. In Indonesia is still often found structural system in old buildings that still use a minimal reinforcement ratio or in this case the lightly shear wall. The lightly sliding wall is believed to have a low lateral load capacity, but in some cases in many countries, the lightweight sliding wall is sufficiently resistant to earthquakes. The height-width ratio is an important aspect in the shear wall structure. Therefore, further research is needed on the effect of high-width ratios. This study discusses the effect of high-width ratios on shear lightly shear walls due to cyclic loads. In this study, the shear wall used as a test specimen with many test specimens was 9 shear wall walls with variations of height-width ratios (2.0, 1.3, and 1.0) or with sizes: (800x400mm), (800x600mm), and (800x800mm) . The test is carried out by providing cyclic load and axial load constant of 3% of axial capacity (Pn) of each specimen until the specimen is collapsed by the drift control method. Data in the form of loads and deviations per cycle are recorded for the analysis of collapse mechanisms. While the picture taken as a reference pattern of cracks. The results of the test show that with increasing height-width ratios can produce the smallest lateral load capacity, or vice versa. The lateral load capacity generated by each test object is SW 2.0 (1), SW 2.0 (2), SW 2.0 (3), SW 1.3 (1), SW 1.3 (2), SW 1.3 (3), SW 1.0 1), SW 1.0 (2), and SW 1.0 (3) are 1593kg, 1503 kg, 1592 kg, 3296 kg, 3388 kg, 3286 kg, 4772 kg, 4771 kg, and 4778 kg. Crack patterns that occur on each specimen have the same result that is the same occurrence of opening (gap opening) at the bottom of the wall.


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