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Best textbook treatment of concrete shear walls?

Best textbook treatment of concrete shear walls?

Best textbook treatment of concrete shear walls?

(OP)
Anybody got any recommendations for a textbook with good coverage of reinforced concrete shear walls?  A lot of reinforced concrete books barely discuss shears walls, if at all.

Bonus points if you can identify a text book that discusses the design of concrete shear boxes (i.e. elevator or stair shaft).

RE: Best textbook treatment of concrete shear walls?

There was a technical report from CIRIA which discusses the design of shear wall buildings.

RE: Best textbook treatment of concrete shear walls?

A pair at least of the books by Bungale Taranath at least deal explicitly with several kinds of structural setups for tall buiildings, and including the study of the core. One of them that I remember also discussed the torsional analysis of the cores.

Then other already classical books discuss shear walls, on of them Simplified Design of reinforced concrete buildings of moderate size and height, David Fanella and S.K. Ghosh, and The design of concrete buildings for Earthquake and wind forces deal in chapters with shearwall designs.

CIRIA 102 is the publication axisth refers to.

Make a google search for shear wall design ... there are great many resources.

RE: Best textbook treatment of concrete shear walls?

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A pair at least of the books by Bungale Taranath at least deal explicitly with several kinds of structural setups for tall buiildings, and including the study of the core. One of them that I remember also discussed the torsional analysis of the cores.

Which one?

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Make a google search for shear wall design ... there are great many resources.

Yea.  It's just hard to know how much a book truly covers without buying it.
 

RE: Best textbook treatment of concrete shear walls?

STEEL, CONCRETE, & COMPOSITE DESIGN OF TALL BUILDINGS
Bungale S. Taranath
2nd edition
Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc., 1998

Chapter 10, Analysis techniques, and more. It is a book example of buildings and related structural calculation items.
I think there is a more recent reedition.

So in this book one would find how to tackle classically one core subject to lateral forces, torsional effects included. Then the Ghosh' books are more on the particularization and standardization of the calculations of shearwalls to meet codes current when edited.

Presently I would say most design of cores would start by modeling in some FEM program the core with plate element components, and so these difficulties about torsion effects are more easily dealt with, even if the programs are not yet entirely able to do with the eccentrical lateral loads automatically in general; but having tools to set diaphragms, finding center of masses, and placing the lateral loads at some arbitrary joint fixed to the diaphragm or adding some moment or pair (or set) of forces per floor one can deal with accidental torsion on a per hypothesis basis. For reinforcement, as always, refer to the mandate of the code, that is what Ghosh was doing from UBC and ACI.
 

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