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Three-dimensional inelastic analysis of reinforced concrete frame-wall structures

Moazzami, Sara; Bertero, Vitelmo V.

UCB/EERC-87/05, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1987-05, 163 pages (510/M615/1987)

An analytical method based on mathematical programming techniques has been developed to evaluate three-dimensional structural response to study the nonlinear behavior of reinforced concrete frame-wall structures at damageability and ultimate limit states. The method also incorporates a finite element model of the shear wall that is capable of simulating some of the physical characteristics of the wall. The model is based on the distributed material properties of reinforcing bars and concrete and is capable of predicting the crack pattern and the failure mode of the wall. The method is applied in a series of nonlinear static analyses of a 1/5-scale model of a seven-story reinforced concrete frame-wall structure, which was tested dynamically at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, while a full-scale prototype was tested pseudodynamically at Tsukuba, Japan. Results of the nonlinear static analyses are compared with those of the dynamic and pseudodynamic tests.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-87-05.pdf (4 MB)