Shear wall is one of the common lateral bracing systems in reinforced concrete structures. A coupling beam can be used due to architectural limitations for connecting two or multiple separate walls. Coupling beams are most vulnerable elements coupled shear systems. Therefore, could designed act as replaceable fuses system. This paper investigates application viscoelastic dampers (VCD) and steel...

buildings with wall or frame-wall systems are more effective against earthquake forces and sustain less damage than buildings which their lateral resistance is solely depends on frames. four reinforced concrete (rc) structural wall specimens were subjected to cyclic loading using finite elements method with abaqus software in order to study influence of diagonal web reinforcement. the research ...

Most of existing steel multi-storey frames in Europe have been designed before the introduction modern seismic design provisions, hence they often exhibit low performance under earthquake loads due to their lateral resistance and energy dissipation capacity. In addition, such structures include rigid brittle masonry infill walls that highly influence response distribution damage pattern. Howeve...