| Title |
An Experimental Study of Hysteretic Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls Subjected to Inelastic Cyclic Loads |
| Abstract |
Results of an experimental investigation of low-rise reinforced concrete shear walls with boundary columns under inelastic loads are discussed and evaluated. Three one-fourth scale models of test specimens with height to length ratio of 0.75 were experimented. The dimension of all walls is 1000mm wide*840mm high*50mm thick for all specimens and the section of all boundary columns is 125mm*125mm.Main variables are: horizontal shear reinforcement ratios and reinforcement details (including crossed diagonal reinforcements in SW3 specimen)In SW3 specimen, maximum strength and consequently dissipating energy were 1.27-1.46 and 1.83 times greater than those of SW2 specimen, respectively. |