References for Designing Concrete Shear Walls with Openings 1

[JoshPlumSE]

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!

 

[ishvaaag]

I quote several references to which I have access just in case you can make some use of it. None is exactly a construction design example of a coupled shear wall, or shear wall 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
"Ef?cient 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)

 

[dik]

There were some earier ACI Journal items by Rico Rosman (sp?) on coupled shear walls, using an equivallent 'filler' for the door openings and beams. This would be early 70's...

Dik

 

[dik]

Found this paper...

Dik

 

[ishvaaag]

http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/elib/

http://www/documents/200908/takayanagi-shear-walls.pdf

a link to to Takehira's text.

 

[ATSE]

Josh, you may want to clearly differentiate opng categories. Coupled walls will behave and be detailed very differently than, say, an 18" diameter opng for ductwork in the middle of a 30' long x 14' tall wall.
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).

 

[JoshPlumSE]

Right now, I'm only concerned with Window and door openings in conventional buildings. Relatively small diameter penetrations for HVAC or pipes or such don't concern me too much.

I'm not all that interested in Seismic right now. But, I will probably become more interested in this down the line.

 

[abusementpark]

JoshPlum,

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.

 

[ishvaaag]

Basically all stands down to the design of rebar (and concrete checks) for concrete plate elements having all component of stress. A look on potential buckling when slender for the panel size must necessarily added to avoid suprises. I think two pairs of structural and mechanical or aeronautical engineers should be able to kill and lay in plain sight this matter forever in under 2 years work, if good, even in weeks. Yet the work must be required, since I don't see it extant anywhere not even in program form.

 

[ishvaaag]

I think I have a dutch or pays bas reference thesis on such intent of properly get the rebar but I think to remember was limited in scope to require more ample work.