In:
The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, Wiley, Vol. 28, No. 18 ( 2019-12-25)
Abstract:
This paper aims to investigate the seismic performance improvement effect of coupled shear wall with steel link beams under cyclic lateral loading. The quasi‐static tests on two 1/3‐scaled specimens, including one coupled shear wall with steel link beams and one coupled shear wall with conventional concrete link beams, were conducted. These two specimens were designed with similar lateral initial stiffness and tested under the same gravity and lateral cyclic loading procedure. The specimen with concrete link beams exhibited sequence shear failures of link beams from top to bottom storey after completing 22 loading cycles. However, the specimen with steel link beams sustained ductile and plump hysteretic behavior under the same loading cycles. The lateral load‐resisting capacity of the specimen with steel link beams is 2.2 times of the specimen with concrete link beams. The experimental results demonstrated great advantages of steel link beams in improving seismic performance of conventional coupled shear wall systems.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1541-7794
,
1541-7808
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
2019
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2133303-8
