Evaluation of The Effect of Shear Wall Arrangement in Dual Systems Subjected to Lateral Loads
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2009-09
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Addis Ababa University
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Dual structural systems are still efficiently used by civil and structural engineers to address
the public demand for residential buildings, schools, hospitals and office buildings.
Furthermore, they are effective in resisting lateral loads by combining the advantages of their
constituents. However, dual structural systems with moment frames are designed to carry
lateral forces in longitudinal direction entirely while structural walls are positioned in shorter
side of the building to resist transversal lateral loads are challenged by Northridge
earthquake. After then, this type of dual system is cited by Erdy Charles k. (2007) as
dangerous combination of shear walls and moment resisting frames. Hence, in an effort to
address this problem, comparative analysis among the sample dual system buildings with
different shear walls arrangement is carried out and overall seismic performance of the dual
system is evaluated using non-linear push over analysis method. Three cases of shear wall
arrangements for each sample building are used to examine the effect of different shear walls
arrangement on the whole system, their interaction with frames and their out-of-plane
bending resistance. Results of non-linear push over analysis are obtained for each case in the
form of capacity curves and plastic hinge formation patterns. The observation of these results
shows that the overall seismic resistance capacity is dependent on the shear wall location.
Also it reveals that the shear walls are vulnerable to local failure due to bending moment in
their out-of- plane direction, regardless of their location. Therefore, caution should have to be
taken during designing of this type of dual system in order to avoid premature collapse of
shear wall in its out-of-plane direction, which may perhaps leave the building defence less to
transversal components of earth quake load.
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Sciences in Structural Engineering