IngentaConnect Experimental and analytical studies of steel plate shear walls as...

Authors: Timler P.¹; Ventura C.E.^{2, *}; Prion H.²; Anjam R.³

Source: The Structural Design of Tall Buildings, Volume 7, Number 3, September 1998 , pp. 233-249(17)

Abstract:

Several analytical and experimental investigations have been conducted on steel plate shear walls in Canada, the United States and Japan, following interest from the consulting and fabrication industries for their incorporation as viable lateral load resisting elements in new or retrofit construction. While numerous buildings with a vertically oriented steel plate for shear strength have been constructed in each of these countries, the lack of codified rules resulted in overly conservative designs. Furthermore, the limit of analysis tools to the linear elastic range prevented utilization of the post-buckling strength of thin, unstiffened steel plate webs bounded by a beam and column framing system. A team of researchers from Canadian universities, consultants and the steel industry undertook to provide succinct design guidelines for the acceptance of the system by the general design profession. Cyclic quasi-static and dynamic shake-table tests on large scale and small scale, single bay, multi-storey shear cores were conducted to examine the system’s ductility performance and to verify analytical models. Further to this, a parallel design exercise of several buildings was performed to evaluate the implementation of the proposed guidelines. In this study, three variations of a steel framed office building were used as case studies. The examples differ primarily in the systems’ required ductility ratings. Competitive reinforced concrete designs were also performed for economic comparisons. The details and current findings of this feasibility program are presented in this paper. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1794(199809)7:3<233::AID-TAL111>3.0.CO;2-I

Affiliations: 1: West-Cascadia Consultants 2: Civil Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z4 3: Read Jones Christoffersen, Consulting Engineers *

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Experimental and analytical studies of steel plate shear walls as applied to the design of tall buildings