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WEB CRUSHING OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURAL WALLS, R. Oesterle, J. D. Aristizabal-Ochoa, K. Shiu, W. Corley, Engineering, 1984, Results of an experimental investigation of isolated reinforced concrete structural walls subjected to inelastic load reversals are discussed and evaluated. Walls subjected to significant inelastic., 67,
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Reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls are the most commonly used structural in buildings to components resist lateral load imposed by earthquakes, and analytical models capable of capturing important nonlinear response characteristics of RC walls at global and local response levels are essential for -based performance seismic structural ...
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ACI 224R-01 Control of Cracking of Concrete Structures, 2001 (reapproved 2008) Table 4.1 shows a "Guide to reasonable crack widths, reinforced concrete under service loads". This table is reproduced in Reinforced Concrete Basic 2E, Table 3.3. (Note that these crack widths are a conversion from US imperial units to metric)
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Web crushing of reinforced concrete structural walls. RG Oesterle, JD Aristizabal-Ochoa, KN Shiu, WG Corley. Journal Proceedings 81 (3), 231-241, 1984. 129: ... Hysteretic response of reinforced concrete structural walls. RG Oesterle, AE Fiorato, JD Aristizabal-Ochoa, WG Corley. ACI Special Publication 63, 243-273, 1980. 60:
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Jun 2, 2021The seismic behavior of RC walls can be governed by a variety of mechanisms and damage patterns, such as flexural and diagonal cracking, vertical bar buckling and rupture, and diagonal crushing of the wall web. A significant portion of RC wall buildings have been constructed prior to the implementation of modern seismic codes.
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Feb 19, 2021Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy ... three identical reinforced concrete (RC) walls were tested under three different lateral loading patterns. ... zone were found to be substantially larger when subjected to bi-directional loading and this led to the occurrence of concrete crushing ...
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An experimental program is presented to develop design criteria for reinforced concrete walls used as lateral bracing in earthquake resistant buildings. The primary concern ... Building Code Requirements for Reinforced Concrete, 'I::he term"structural wall" is used in place of Ii shear wall." ... severe web crushing at a nominal shear stress
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During the first cycle to 3.8% lateral drift, almost all the horizontal members failed, crushing of the concrete took place at the bottom of structural column of the web edge, buckling of longitudinal reinforcement occurred, test was ended due to buckling of longitudinal reinforcement. Fig.3.1 shows photos of the four specimens after failure.
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been accelerated by use of higher concrete strengths. Observed wall damage in recent earthquakes in Chile (2010) and New Zealand (2011), where modern building codes exist, exceeded expectations. In these earthquakes, structural wall damage included boundary crushing, reinforcement fracture, and lateral wall buckling.
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TEK 14-1B, Section Properties of Concrete Masonry Walls (ref. 6) provides typical values for the net moment of inertia, I n, and cross-sectional area, A n, for various wall sections. If the value of the bending stress, f b, given by Equation 1 is positive, the masonry section is controlled by tension and the limiting values of Table 1 must be ...
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118 for slender RC shear walls, making them suitable candidates for retrofit. SW6 was reported to have 119 failed due to fracture of transverse reinforcement and crushing of concrete in the boundary 120 element. The failure mode was concluded to be a combination of shear and concrete crushing 121 (flexure-shear).
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A large body of research conducted on the shear behavior of reinforced concrete and fiber-reinforced concrete slender beams with no stirrups has demonstrated the importance of size effect on ultimate shear strength . Because R/UHPC members may be designed without shear reinforcement, the potential size effect in their ultimate shear stress ...
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for intermediate reinforced masonry shear walls subjected to in-plane loads: α = 3.0, for special reinforced masonry shear walls subjected to in-plane loads: α = 4.0, for other masonry elements and loading conditions: α= 1.5. For cases where M u /V u d v ≤ 1.0 (indicating shear dominated performance) and R > 1.5: α = 1.5.
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Construction of low-rise (one-to-two stories high) housing units using reinforced concrete walls has considerably increased in Latin American countries, such as Mexico and Peru. Due to the lateral stiffness and strength of concrete wall structures, seismic force and displacement demands are, most of the times, relatively low.
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The inelastic behavior of reinforced concrete walls are significantly affected by the inclined cracking angle θ c of the web concrete. However, it is difficult to accurately estimate θ c without sophisticated nonlinear numerical analysis because the web concrete is subjected to biaxial stresses.
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Finally, for walls with adequate transverse reinforcement but low quantities of longitudinal reinforcement in the web, failure can be due to yielding of longitudinal reinforcement followed by growth and widening of interface cracks, leading to a sliding deformation along the base of the wall ( Fig. 1 (c)).
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Structural wall damages during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake showed that modern reinforced concrete (RC) walls did not respond in a ductile manner as much as expected (Sritharan et al., 2014). ... seemingly linked to an initial crushing of the wall web region adjacent to the boundary elements. The
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Oct 20, 2020In the present study, an attempt has been made to experimentally investigate the flexural performance of ten simply supported reinforced concrete gable roof beams, including solid control specimen (i.e., without openings) and nine beams with web openings of different dimensions and configurations. The nine beams with openings have identical reinforcement details. All beams were monotonically ...
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Jan 15, 2021Over the past few decades, the study on shear walls with various configurations of reinforcement detailing has shown significant growth due to its efficient performance under earthquake forces. The current work experimentally explores the seismic performance of reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall detailed with X-shaped web reinforcement configuration. Four numbers of 1:4 scaled models of RC ...
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Two types of reinforcement are usedin the specimens, namely, a deformed steel rebar for longitudinal reinforcement and a plain roundsteel rebar for flange and web reinforcement of intersecting member.The main reinforcement isprovided by deformed steel bars with a diameter of 12 mm withyield strength of 270 MPa.
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Reinforced concrete (RC) walls are commonly used as the primary lateral-force-resisting system for tall buildings, although for buildings over 49 m (160 ft), IBC 2006 requires use of a dual system. Use of nonlinear response history analysis (NRHA) coupled with peer-review has become a common way to assess the expected performance of tall buildings at various hazard levels to avoid the use of a ...
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The connection inhibits concrete crushing at the end of the web wall. Horizontal and vertical directional slots were used instead of circular holes to minimize tolerance issues such as location deviation. A pair of outer and inner C-shaped connections were used at one location, as shown in Fig. 1.
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The Online School in collaboration with Professor Ioannis Koutromanos (Virginia Tech), presents a new computational framework that enables the advanced and practical analysis of reinforced concrete structural wall (RCSW) components and building systems.
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This study aimed to present a reinforced concrete block system that reduces the flange thickness of the existing form block used in new buildings and optimizes the web form, and can thus capable of being used in the seismic retrofit of new and existing buildings. By conducting a compression test and finite element analysis based on the block and grouted concrete strength, it attempted to ...
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A typical configuration for seismic regions is the concrete core-wall system in which coupling beams link a pair of C-shaped walls. While a prevalent structural system, few experimental research programs have examined this wall type and codes of practice have focused on design provisions for planar walls which do not fully account for the ...
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not compliant with the requirements of ACI 318-14 (ACI 2014). Failure of the wall was due to concrete crushing in the web and boundary element together with the fracture of transverse reinforcement, which led to the flexure-shear failure mode. More details about the wall can be found elsewhere (Pilakoutas and Elnashai 1995). Figure 1.
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For example, the minimum thickness of a structural wall allowed is 12.5 cm, the smallest allowed length to thickness ratio for a wall is 6 (from the selected values, the minimum length and the...
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The crushing of concrete takes place at the tip of the diagonal crack in the area around the point of load application. Fig. 4 illustrates the development of cracks at the location of shear compression failure in a beam. Shear compression failure is mainly related to high amount of shear reinforcement.
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Web crushing capacity of high-strength concrete structural walls: experimental study. R Burgueño, X Liu, EM Hines. ACI Structural Journal 111 (2), 235, 2014. 21: ... Seismic Performance of Hollow Rectangular Reinforced Concrete Piers with Highly-confined Boundary Elements: Phase I: Flexural Tests, Phase II: Shear Tests ...
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A database of both rectangular RC prism (axial) and RC wall tests was assembled, and the results were compared with a popular analytical constitutive model for confined concrete. The existing model assumes that compressive behavior is based on fracture of the transverse reinforcement, however the data indicates that bar buckling and/or crushing ...
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A six-storey reinforced concrete structure is used for that purpose. Pushover analysis is used to estimate the building collapse limits in terms of MID and MRID. The building is then subjected to six earthquake records scaled to different intensities. The observe damage at these limits is compared.
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According to Oesterle et al. ( 1984 ), Vecchino and Collins ( 1986 ), and Bentz et al. ( 2006 ), the inclined cracking angle θ c varies from 35 to 55° depending on vertical and horizontal reinforcement ratios of the web concrete. In the present study, for convenience, θ c = 45° is used for diagonal uniaxial elements of concrete.
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Oct 1, 2020Since the crushing strength of the Boeing 767 aircraft model ... cylindrical wall & dome or consideration of steel plates are essential to account for local failure modes and overall structural integrity. In rigid wall impact ... the damage of reinforced concrete containment is analyzed by two methods, including displacement,stress for ...
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Reinforced concrete structural walls are utilized in seismic design of multistory buildings as systems that exhibit high levels of strength and ductility under ultimate loads. ... Historically, diagonal cracking, web crushing, compressive boundary element damage, horizontal failure plane and collapse have been the dominant
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The potential hazard of a shear failure of a structural wall during an earthquake has been documented by the results of laboratory tests.2-6 Walls display pinched hysteresis curves and poor energy dissipation characteristics, experience stiffness degradation with cycling, and may exhibit a sudden loss in lateral load capacity due to web crushing.
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Apr 3, 2022R11.6.3.1 —The size of a cross section is limited for two reasons, first to reduce unsightly cracking and second to prevent crushing of the surface concrete due to inclined compressive stresses due to shear and torsion. In Eq. (1118) and (11-19), the two terms on the left hand side are the shear stresses due to shear and torsion.
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reinforced concrete structural walls in earthquake resistant buildings. The objective of the experiments is to determine ductility, energy dissipation capacity and strength of a wide variety of walls. Isolated walls representipg those found in structural wall systems were tested. Test specimens were approximately 1/3
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