Abstract: Conventional design of steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) assumes that 100% of the story shear is resisted by each infill panel. Following this approach, strength provided by the boundary frame moment resisting action, which ...

Abstract: Consistent with capacity design principles and requirements of ductile behavior, the 2005 AISC and 2001 CSA seismic design codes require that the intermediate horizontal boundary elements (HBEs) of steel plate shear walls ...

Abstract: The use of steel concentrically braced frames (CBFs) has substantially increased recently. However, investigations and observations from past earthquakes suggest that some existing CBFs, particularly the older ones that ...

Abstract: A two-phase experimental program was generated on a full-scale two-story steel plate shear wall with reduced beam section connections and composite floors, to experimentally address the replaceability of infill panels ...

Abstract: This research investigates the shear resistance of steel angle connectors welded to the webs of U-shaped steel–concrete composite girders. First, push-out tests were conducted on the experimental specimens in which the ...