Special Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls

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Special reinforced concrete shear walls.

Shear wall systems that are not exempted from checks for story drift include prestressed masonry shear walls and special reinforced masonry shear walls. Concrete shear wall system requiring special code acceptance can bora research assistant department of civil and environmental engineering university of wisconsin. A structural reinforced concrete shear wall in a 5 story building provides lateral and gravity load resistance for the applied load as shown in the figure below. The design and detailing requirements for special reinforced concrete shear walls have undergone significant changes from aci 318 11 to aci 318 14.

The changes are a result of the unsatisfactory performance of many shear walls in the chile earthquake of 2010 and the christchurch new zealand earthquake of 2011. In asce 7 10 table 12 2 1 two types of shear walls can be used ordinary reinforced concrete shear walls and special reinforced concrete shear walls what is it the difference between these walls. Seismic design of special reinforced masonry shear walls. The requirements of this section apply to special reinforced concrete structural walls serving as part of the earthquake force resisting system.

Stack exchange network consists of 176 q a communities including stack overflow. Reinforced concrete shear wall analysis and design. Shear wall section and assumed reinforcement is investigated after analysis to verify suitability for the applied loads. Based on aci 18 10 4 1 nominal shear strength v n of structural walls is not to exceed vn acv c f c t fy where c is a coefficient defining the relative contribution of concrete.

Special reinforced concrete structural walls are walls that have been proportioned and detailed to meet special code requirements for resisting combinations of shear moment and axial force. Shear wall section and assumed reinforcement is investigated after analysis to verify suitability for the applied loads. A guide for practicing engineers nist gcr 14 917 31 prepared by the applied technology council for the national institute of standards and technology gaithersburg md.