This paper presents an experimental program dealing with the shear strengthening with FRP systems of URM walls built with concrete and clay units. Ten concrete and five clay masonry panels, strengthened with FRP composites in the form of laminates and rods, and stainless steel, were loaded along the wall diagonal to observe their shear performance. The dimension of the concrete masonry panels w...

In-plane lateral loading tests were conducted to investigate the structural performance of SFRC shear walls. The test results revealed that steel fiber reinforcement mitigated damage walls and enhanced their capacity. number cracks on at an interstory-drift angle 1/200 was twice as significant RC wall, maximum residual crack widths approximately half. Shear stiffness degradation after cracking ...

Steel coupling beam (SCB) is a substantial member of the hybrid coupled walls system. When are linked by SCB rather than conventionally reinforced or diagonally beams, system’s strength and energy dissipation capacities greatly enhanced. A corrugated web may be used in instead flat to improve these characteristics even more. This paper presents an experimental numerical investigation shear-carr...

Abstract Fire can be an adverse event with tangible costs for property and human life. In addition to its physical costs, fire has a range of obvious consequences on the environment. One fire’s outcomes is effect structures. Corrugated Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSWs) are environmentally friendly since they manufactured in factory, reducing environmental disturbance around construction site, als...

This paper presents a new configuration for semi-supported steel plate shear walls to increase their efficiency. For this purpose, the infill is proposed be trapezoidal shape instead of rectangular one. To find most efficient inclination angle lateral sides, numerical parametric study was conducted. Five different values including 60, 75, 90, 105, and 120 degrees were considered. Furthermore, t...

Small-scale, instructional shake tables, such as the UCIST shake table, are used at many colleges and universities to provide educational and research experiences in seismic behavior of structural systems. This paper describes the development of a physical model and associated educational materials that demonstrate the seismic behavior of shear walls used in cold-formed steel (CFS) building sys...