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States of the art and practice in the optimum seismic design and analytical response prediction of R/C frame-wall structures

Aktan, Ahmet E.; Bertero, Vitelmo V.

UCB/EERC-82/06, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1982-07, 77 pages (515/A39/1982S)

The objective of this report is to evaluate the states of the art and practice in seismic design and analysis of R/C frame-coupled wall structural systems. The findings during the course of continuing research at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, for the past decade on "The Seismic Behavior of Structural Components--R/C Frame-Wall Systems" and the relevant literature constitute the basis for the evaluations reported in this publication. However, the major source of evaluations was based on integrated analytical and experimental investigations of the seismic responses of a 15-story R/C frame-coupled wall structural system, used as the example in these evaluations. The step-by-step design of the 15-story structure was carried out by considering each of the pertinent provisions of the 1973 Uniform Building Code (UBC), the 1979 Uniform Building Code, and the Applied Technology Council ATC 3-06 that had been considered in representing the state of the practice. Analytical models of the 1973 UBC-designed version of the structure were utilized for elastic and inelastic seismic response analyses, while a 1/3-scale, 4-1/2 story subassemblage of one of the structure's coupled wall systems was constructed and subjected to numerous experiments. Observations of the study results led to evaluations of the state of the practice for seismic-resistant design and the state of the art for analytical seismic response prediction of R/C frame-coupled wall structures.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-82-06.pdf (3 MB)