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A design guide for steel plate shear walls in Canada

Steel plate shear walls have typically been analyzed using quasi static and monotonic pushover analysis; however, dynamic excitations during an earthquake elicit different behaviour from the structure due to the nature of the loading.
This report outlines the design and analysis of a steel plate shear wall according to NBCC and S16-09 requirements. For lateral loading, wind and seismic forces are considered.
The NBCC recognizes two procedures for determining seismic loading, the equivalent static force procedure and dynamic analysis. An analytical model was created in SAP2000® using capacity design principals and the strip model. The dynamic analysis uses bi-directional tension strips to resist load reversals and was validated against a finite element analysis using ABAQUS®.
The dynamic analysis provided an effective means of designing the steel plate shear wall. The equivalent static force procedure resulted in a similar design; however, the structure required stiffening to meet the deflection requirements.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1829
Date06 1900
CreatorsStankevicius, Joseph
ContributorsGrondin, Gilbert (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Grondin, Gilbert (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Adeeb, Samer (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Mertiny, Pierre (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Format6224001 bytes, application/pdf

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