Hand-Calculated Procedure for Rigidity Computation of Shear Walls with Openings
Publication: Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction
Volume 19, Issue 4
Abstract
The behavior of a solid shear wall is well understood, and the rigidity of the wall can be accurately determined using a simple hand-calculated approach. However, the computation of the rigidity of a shear wall with openings is significantly more complex than that of a solid wall and, therefore, can only be accurately determined by using the computer-aided FEM. Although several conventional simplified hand-calculated procedures are available for practicing structural engineers, results from those procedures are highly approximate and may not be reliable. Therefore, a more accurate hand-calculated procedure, which considers the rotation at the tops of the piers and the effective length of the piers, is proposed to calculate the rigidity of shear walls with openings. A total of three different configurations of shear walls with openings are used as examples to assess the accuracy of the newly proposed hand-calculated method. The accuracy of the results derived from the newly proposed hand-calculated procedure has significantly been improved over the conventional hand-calculated procedures.
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Acknowledgments
The author thanks Anila Rajbhandari and Yunyi Jiang (graduate students at Southern Illinois University Carbondale) for their support in computing the rigidity of the shear walls for the finite-element analysis.
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Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction
Volume 19 • Issue 4 • November 2014
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© 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Jul 29, 2013
Accepted: Oct 28, 2013
Published online: Oct 30, 2013
Discussion open until: Aug 4, 2014
Published in print: Nov 1, 2014
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