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Structural performance of steel plate shear walls with trapezoidal corrugations and centrally-placed square perforations

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Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) are an efficient lateral force-resisting system, and can be designed with corrugated and/or perforated infill plates, depending on structural considerations, architectural requirements, and service design. This paper presents a study on the structural performance of SPSWs with horizontal trapezoidal corrugations and centrally-placed square perforations under monotonic loading. Finite element models were developed for assessment of the buckling stability, stiffness, strength, and ductility performances of the shear walls. To this end, parametric studies were performed by considering the web-plate corrugation angle, thickness, and size of opening as the varying parameters in the nonlinear pushover analyses. It was found that the design of the boundary frame members can be effective in minimizing the deformations imposed by infill plates, providing system ductility, and developing lateral load resistance through stable development of diagonal tension-field action in the web plate. The effects of introducing web-plate perforations, and increasing the size of the opening, on the structural performance were also investigated. Proper design and detailing of the SPSW, along with optimal selection of the web-plate geometrical and corrugation parameters, can ensure desirable structural behavior and seismic performance for such lateral force-resisting systems.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Milad Bahrebar & Mohammad Zaman Kabir

  2. School of Engineering Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

    Mohammad Hajsadeghi

  3. Civil Engineering Department, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, China

    Mohammad Hajsadeghi

  4. Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA

    Tadeh Zirakian

  5. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    James B. P. Lim

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Bahrebar, M., Kabir, M.Z., Hajsadeghi, M. et al. Structural performance of steel plate shear walls with trapezoidal corrugations and centrally-placed square perforations. Int J Steel Struct 16, 845–855 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13296-015-0116-y

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