Abstract: This is Part II of two companion papers on performance-based capacity design of steel plate shear walls. These papers aim to provide a holistic and sound basis for capacity design of steel plate shear walls to any of three ...

Abstract: This is Part I of two companion papers on performance-based capacity design of steel plate shear walls. Most previous research has been conducted with the primary aim of maximizing ductility and robustness under severe ...

Abstract: Where simple beam-to-column connections are used in the boundary frame of a steel plate shear wall and the tension fields in the infill plates are assumed to be uniform and at the yield stress for capacity design, the ...