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Seismic performance of prefabricated wall panels with sliding joints for reinforced concrete frames

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The seismic performance of infill wall reinforced concrete (RC) frame systems has found considerable interest in the earthquake engineering community for the last decades. However, the adverse interaction between the infills and RC frame may lead to serious collapses of the infills and casualties during earthquakes. To mitigate the adverse interaction, this study proposes an innovative damping infilled frame (DWF) system, which is mainly composed of an RC frame, prefabricated wall panels, sliding joints, and optimized connectors. The DWF system is to isolate the infills from the boundary frame and provide additional energy dissipation capacity by driving the wall panels to slide on the sliding joints. An optimized connection method is proposed to enhance the sliding mechanism and simplify the installation process. Quasi-static cyclic tests are conducted to investigate the seismic performance of the DWF system. Experimental results indicate that the DWF can effectively mitigate the detrimental infill–frame interaction, thereby exhibit stable load-bearing capacity and energy dissipation capacity loadings. Furthermore, the finite element numerical models of the DWF are established to further explore their seismic performance. Parametric analysis results reveal that both the mechanical properties of the sliding joints and the width of the infills can play crucial roles in enhancing the seismic performance of the DWF system.

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The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of this work by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52378498), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51508117).

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The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of this work by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52378498), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51508117).

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    Chao Zhang, Zijian Lin, Tianhao Yu, Weiyuan Huang, Xuesong Deng, Zexin Lin & Yuming Huang

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, People’s Republic of China

    Tianhao Yu

  3. State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, People’s Republic of China

    Weiyuan Huang

  4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, 20133, Italy

    Weiyuan Huang

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C.Z.: Conceptualization, Methodology, Funding acquisition, Validation, Resource. Z.L.: Investigation, Software, Writing–original draft, Data curation. T.Y.: Methodology, Supervision, Writing–original draft, Writing–review and editing. W.H.: Methodology, Supervision, Writing–review and editing. X.D.: Project administration, Resource. Z.L.: Investigation, Validation, Data curation. Y.H.: Data curation.

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Zhang, C., Lin, Z., Yu, T. et al. Seismic performance of prefabricated wall panels with sliding joints for reinforced concrete frames. Bull Earthquake Eng 22, 2505–2529 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-024-01866-4

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