References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings
References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings
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My company is working on some tools to automate (or partially automate) the design of concrete shear walls with openings. I think we've got a pretty good grasp of the code provisions, but would like to compare our designs to some published examples.... Unfortunately, we've had a tough time finding good published examples.
Does anyone have recommedations of design references which contain concrete shear walls with openings that we could use for this purpose?
Thanks in advance!
Does anyone have recommedations of design references which contain concrete shear walls with openings that we could use for this purpose?
Thanks in advance!






RE: References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings
The Priestley-Paulay text for seismic design
"Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Buildings"
has a section showing how a squat wall with irregularly laid openings can be dealt through strut and tie method.
CIRIA report 102 "Design of shear wall buildings"
certainly addresses the design of shear walls with openings ("pierced" walls, p. 79)
The thesis
"HIGHER ORDER FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF SHEAR WALLS FOR STATIC AND DYNAMIC LOADS"
by
RAMAKRISHNA NARAYANASWAMI, B.Sc. In C.E., M. Tech. In C.E,
A DISSERTATION IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in
Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
also addresses coupled shear walls
Another Thesis
"SEISMIC DEMAND IN HIGH-RISE CONCRETE WALLS"
by
Timothy Watkins White
University of British Columbia, 2004
compares 67 walls, coupled walls included (to its purpose).
Nawy's
"Reinforced concrete, a fundamental approach" 5th ed. addresses coupling beams at section 16.9.2
Another thesis at Urbana's
COMPUTED BEHAVIOR OF COUPLED SHEAR WALLS
Takehira Takyanagi, 1977
JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING / OCTOBER 2002
"Pushover of Hybrid Coupled Walls. II: Analysis and Behavior"
Sherif El-Tawil, P.E., M.ASCE, and Christopher M. Kuenzli
JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING / JANUARY 2001
"ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR PREDICTING SHEAR STRENGTH OF SQUAT WALLS"
By Shyh-Jiann Hwang,Wen-Hung Fang,Hung-Jen Lee,and Hsin-Wan Yu
"Shear Wall Analysis – New Modelling, Same Answers."
by Kenneth Arnott, CSC (UK) Ltd,
Product Manager for CSC's S-Frame and Orion
One of Elsevier's
"Efficient three-dimensional seismic analysis of a high-rise building structure with shear walls"
Hyun-Su Kima,Dong-Guen Leea,CheeKyeong Kimb
Taranath briefly discusses coupled shear walls at section 5.4 of its 2nd edition
"Steel, concrete and composite design of tall buildings"
ACI Structural Journal /July August 1996
"Design of Slender Concrete Walls with Openings"
Taylor, Cote, Wallace
Last I add a coupled shear wall example scanned from a copy from the Halasz-Tantow text (in spanish)
RE: References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings
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RE: References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings
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RE: References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings
a link to to Takehira's text.
RE: References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings
I believe Pauley & Priestly may have an example of coupled shearwalls + detailing. For seismic coupling (ACI 21.7.7), the detailing is very complex (i.e. ugly).
RE: References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings
I'm not all that interested in Seismic right now. But, I will probably become more interested in this down the line.
RE: References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings
What about concrete shear boxes?
The entire elevator or stair shaft is commonly used in both concrete and steel structures as a reinforced concrete shear box for lateral stability. Those always have door openings in them at each floor. I have never found references on design methodology for those type of shear walls.
RE: References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings
RE: References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings