Testing of Full-Scale Two-Story Steel Plate Shear Wall with Reduced Beam Section Connections and Composite Floors
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 134, Issue 3
Abstract
A two-phase experimental program was generated on a full-scale two-story steel plate shear wall with reduced beam section connections and composite floors, to experimentally address the replaceability of infill panels following an earthquake and the seismic behavior of the intermediate beam. In Phase I, the specimen was pseudodynamically tested, subjected to three ground motions of progressively decreasing intensity. The buckled panels were replaced by new panels prior to submitting the specimen to a subsequent pseudodynamic test and cyclic test to failure in Phase II. It is shown that the repaired specimen can survive and dissipate significant amounts of hysteretic energy in a subsequent earthquake without severe damage to the boundary frame or overall strength degradation. It is also found that the specimen had exceptional redundancy and exhibited stable force-displacement behavior up to the story drifts of 5.2 and 5.0% at the first and second story, respectively. Experimental results from pseudodynamic and cyclic tests are compared to seismic performance predictions obtained from a dual strip model using tension only strips and from a monotonic pushover analysis using a three-dimensional finite-element model, respectively, and good agreement is observed.
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Acknowledgments
This work was financially supported in part by the Taiwan National Science Council and the Taiwan National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, and in part by the Earthquake Engineering Research Centers Program of the US National Science Foundation under Award No. NSFECC-9701471 to the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research. All sponsors are gratefully acknowledged. The writers are also grateful to China Steel, who provided the construction materials for the specimens, and to the technical support at NCREE. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations presented in this paper are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.
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Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 134 • Issue 3 • March 2008
Pages: 364 - 373
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© 2008 ASCE.
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Received: Jan 18, 2007
Accepted: Jul 5, 2007
Published online: Mar 1, 2008
Published in print: Mar 2008
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