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Shake table testing of hybrid wood shear wall system
… on testing of a one-story full-scale hybrid wood shear wall system comprised of a post-tensioned CLT wall panel with Light-frame wood shear (LiFS) wall panels on each side. The testing was conducted at CSU's Engineering Research Center shake table. The objective of this study was to combine the …
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Strength and stiffness of shear wall-floor slab connections
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Seismic Performance Assessment of Wood-Frame Shear Wall Structures
Wood-frame shear wall structures are widely used for residential and commercial buildings. These buildings are lightweight, have very ductile connections and includes multiple load paths. The main objective of this dissertation is to evaluate the seismic performance of a wide range of wood-frame …
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Performance-Based Analysis of a Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Building
… ANALYSIS OF A REINFORCED CONCRETE SHEAR WALL BUILDING</p> <p>Garrett Richard Hagen</p> <p>In this thesis, a special reinforced concrete shear wall building was designed per ASCE 7-05, and then the performance was investigated using the four analysis procedures outlined in ASCE …
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Shear wall layout optimization for conceptual design of tall buildings
… is important for material efficiency. In a shear-wall-based building, the conventional design process starts with an architect generating a floor plan, which is then passed to a structural engineer, who, based on knowledge and prior experience, tries to place shear walls to balance …
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Shear Wall Layout Optimization in Coordination with Architectural Floor Plans
… significant component of the structural system. Shear walls are a prominent lateral system, but they are large and cumbersome components and thus present architects with a challenge when trying to position shear walls in their floor layouts. Optimizing the lateral system of a tall building is …
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Seismic Response of Low -Rise Shear Wall Structures With Flexible Diaphragms
… effects are described for low-rise perimeter shear wall structures. The proposed methods are based on the principal modes obtained from a principal components analysis (PCA) of computed inelastic dynamic responses. The method can consider variations in the design response spectrum and gives …
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The analysis of shear wall structures and their interaction with elastic foundations
… are outlined and the advantages of the use of shear walls as the load bearing elements in such structures are indicated. It is shown that, although a considerable amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of multi-storey structures, very little attention has been paid to the effects …
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In-Plane Shear Wall Performance As Affected by Compressed Earth Block Shape
<p>This thesis investigates the in-plane shear performance of full-scale walls made from compressed earth blocks. Compressed earth blocks are a type of masonry where the blocks are composed of compressed soil and typically dry-stacked without mortar. Prior research has demonstrated that the …
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Nonlinear three-dimensional behavior of shear-wall dominant reinforced concrete building structures
The behavior of shear-wall dominant, low-rise, multistory reinforced concrete shear-wall dominant building structures commonly built in Chile, Japan, Italy and Middle East countries are investigated. Because there are no beams or columns and the slab and wall thickness are approximately equal, …
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Shear wall layout optimization of dynamically loaded three-dimensional tall building structures
Deciding on the appropriate layout of shear walls and the thickness of each member is an iterative process that is time consuming and often leads to suboptimal results. Every time the stiffness of the building is modified, the structural designer must ensure deflection and inter-story drift limits …
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Effects of a Flexible Foundation on the Response of a Timber Shear Wall
… flexible foundations on the response of timber shear walls. Timber shear walls, which typically consist of structural-use panels, such as plywood or oriented strand board (OSB), attached to a frame made from dimension lumber with dowel-type fasteners such as nails, provide resistance to lateral …
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Computational simulation and analytical development of Buckling Resistant Steel Plate Shear Wall (BR-SPSW)
Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) are an attractive option for lateral load resisting systems for both new and retrofit construction. They, however, present various challenges that can result in very thin web plates and excessively large boundary elements with moment connections, neither of which is …
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Sensitivity Study on Modification of Vertical Distribution of Strength and Stiffness in Wood Shear Wall Building Models
… seismic performance of multi-story wood-frame shear wall buildings. In the prior FEMA P695 studies of these buildings, the non-simulated collapse limit-state was exceeded primarily in the first story. This observation raised interest in quantifying the influence of varying strength from story …
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Investigation of Modular Cross-Laminated Timber Rocking Walls and Rocking Wall -- Light-Frame Shear Wall Dual Systems for Seismic Resilience
… of post-tensioned cross-laminated timber rocking walls (PT-CLT-RW) for resilient wood construction. This research focuses on experimental, analytical, and numerical investigations into PT-CLT-RW systems, both as stand-alone and as a dual lateral force resisting systems (LFRS) with wood light frame …
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Finite element analysis of pierced shear walls
Previous discrete analysis techniques applied to shear walls with openings have utilized finite elements with linear displacement fields. These elements require relatively fine meshes in order to correctly describe the reverse bending behavior of the connecting beams and to avoid an idealization …
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Computed Nonlinear Seismic Response of Reinforced-Concrete Wall-Frame Structures (Dynamic, Analysis)
… the response of a reinforced-concrete coupled shear wall and/or wall-frame structure subjected to strong earthquate motion without complication in the method itself, yet with reasonable reliability in the computed results. The computed responses of one cantilever column member, two coupled …
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Formulation and Validation of a Nonlinear Shell Element for the Analysis of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Structures
Reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall buildings constitute a significant portion of the building inventory in many earthquake-prone regions. A similar type of structural system is fully-grouted reinforced masonry (RM) shear wall structures. The accurate determination of the nonlinear response of …
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Parametric study of timber shear walls
Timber shear walls comprise the vertical element of the lateral force resisting system in many low-rise buildings in North America. A typical shear wall consists of a solid panel product connected to a light timber frame with either a dowel-type fastener, such as nails, or elastomeric adhesives. …
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