Unique Concrete Shear Wall Shapes
Unique Concrete Shear Wall Shapes
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If I have an arbitrary shear wall shape (e.g., an h-shape) or something similar to that where I have wall segments branching off, are there any limitations on the reinforcement design? I'm designing my wall as an ordinary reinforced concrete wall. I will apply positive and negative moments about each axis. I would prefer to design my wall as a single bending member as opposed to individual rectangle walls. Let me know if you think this is okay or if there are certain things I need to consider such as effective flange widths (for both tension and compression) or additional detailing requirements. Thank you.






RE: Unique Concrete Shear Wall Shapes
Biaxial forces (2 moments and axial force) vector lies exactly on the interaction surface of the wall. This procedure should be carried out in order to design correctly ecvery element of arbitrary cross sections. Even though the bending can be applied about one axis (uniaxial), bixial bending weill occur due to the eccentricities that are arisen in the analysis.
A software that performs above steps is this one, which i used to work with over the last months.
Regards,
Gigi
RE: Unique Concrete Shear Wall Shapes
Thank you,
Matt, EIT