Experimental investigation of the response of reinforced concrete structural walls subjected to static and dynamic loading
The purpose of this study was to investigate the hysteretic response of reinforced-concrete (R/C) structural walls that are susceptible to shear failure after flexural yielding. The investigation was divided into an experimental and an analytical phase. There were three main objectives in the experimental phase: to study the potential discrepancies between static and dynamic wall response, to examine the influence of the web reinforcement ratio on the overall response and modes of failure, and to investigate the sensitivity of shear-dominated wall response to the sequence of earthquake testing. The analytical phase comprised two parts: the compilation of a database of static tests of structural walls, and the development of a hysteresis model for the nonlinear response history analysis of R/C wall elements.
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