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Nonlinear Finite Element Modeling of Novel Partially Connected Buckling-Restrained Steel Plate Shear Walls

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It has been demonstrated that the buckling-restrained steel plate shear wall (SPSW) is an efficient and economic lateral load-resisting system exhibiting high performance on initial stiffness, ductility, shear resistance, and energy dissipation capacity. In present study, a novel partially connected buckling-restrained SPSW is presented to reduce the stiffness requirement for the vertical boundary elements. Meanwhile, nonlinear finite element (FE) analysis is performed to evaluate the behavior of the proposed shear wall system so that a large expense of conducting additional test can be saved. The experimental results from the literature and the test conducted by the authors are used to establish the validation of FE models. Based on the validated FE models, a further extensive parametric study is carried out to investigate the effect of initial imperfection, stiffness of boundary elements, slenderness ratio (Height/Thickness) of the infill panel, aspect ratio (Height/Width) of the infill panel, RC cover panel thickness and bolt spacing on the behavior of the partially connected buckling-restrained SPSW.

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Acknowledgements

This research work is supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) (Grant No. 201506120268). The writer wishes to thank Prof. J.Y. Richard Liew for his assistance in the writing of this paper. However, any opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations presented in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.

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  1. School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Mu-Wang Wei

  2. Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Xue-Yi Fu

  3. Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, Singapore

    J. Y. Richard Liew

  4. College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 211816, Jiangsu, China

    J. Y. Richard Liew

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Wei, MW., Richard Liew, J.Y. & Fu, XY. Nonlinear Finite Element Modeling of Novel Partially Connected Buckling-Restrained Steel Plate Shear Walls. Int J Steel Struct 19, 28–43 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13296-018-0073-3

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