Design of Steel Plate Shear Walls Considering Boundary Frame Moment Resisting Action
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 135, Issue 12
Abstract
Conventional design of steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) assumes that 100% of the story shear is resisted by each infill panel. Following this approach, strength provided by the boundary frame moment resisting action, which provides the SPSW with overstrength, is neglected. While this design assumption has a positive impact on seismic performance of SPSWs, no analytical work has been done to quantify the magnitude of this overstrength in general terms. Such preliminary work is conducted in this paper. Based on plastic analysis of SPSWs, this paper investigates the relative and respective contributions of boundary frame moment resisting action and infill panel tension field action to the overall plastic strength of SPSWs, followed by a proposed procedure to make use of the strength provided by the boundary frame moment resisting action. Procedures for design of SPSWs having weak infill panels are also developed in this paper. Then, results from a series of time history analyses using validated models are presented to compare the seismic performances of SPSWs designed using different design assumptions. Future work needed to provide greater insight on SPSW designs is also identified.
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the EERC Program of NSF under Award No. NSFECC-9701471 to MCEER. However, 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 135 • Issue 12 • December 2009
Pages: 1511 - 1521
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Received: Jun 28, 2008
Accepted: Apr 29, 2009
Published online: Nov 13, 2009
Published in print: Dec 2009
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