Performance-Based Seismic Design of Concrete Walls

Performance-Based Seismic Design of Concrete Walls

The research will build on and extend the findings of a recent NSF study to investigate the bidirectional loading effects on C-shaped and core wall configurations. The scope of the proposed project includes testing of wall subassemblages under bidirectional loading, and the results of previous shake-table tests suggest that bidirectional loading has a significant effect on wall stiffness. The results of these experimental tests will enable validating response and damage-predication models for both single walls and complete core systems, as well as to develop recommendations for Performance-Based Seismic Design methodologies that account for the effect of bidirectional loading.

• Grant Details

  Project

  Performance-Based Seismic Design of Concrete Walls

  Grantee

  University of Washington

  Category

  Performance-Based Design

  Subcategory

  Seismic

  Grant #

  03-09

  Award Amount

  $275,000

  Grant Period

  January 2009 - July 2010

  Grant Status

  Complete

  Principal Investigators

  Professor Laura Lowes

  Industry Champions

  Ron Klemencic, President, MKA; Neil Hawkins, U Ill.

• Resources / Downloads

  • Nonlinear Modeling of Flexural RC Walls Final Report, 2015
  • Fragility Functions for Flexural Reinforced Concrete Walls, 2015
  • Summary of Large Scale C-Shaped Reinforced Concrete Wall Tests, 2015
  • Summary of Large Scale Nonplanar Reinforced Concrete Wall Tests, 2015
  • Empirically Derived Effective Stiffness of RC Walls Final Report, 2015
  • Recommendations for Seismic Demand and Performance Assessment for Flexural Concrete Walls

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