Experimental and Numerical Study of Beam-Only-Connected Corrugated Steel Plate Shear Walls

ABSTRACT

The cyclic performance of beam-only-connected Corrugated Steel Plate Shear Walls (CSPSWs) is studied experimentally and numerically. Two one-story single-bay specimens with single and double corrugated infill plates were built and tested under lateral cyclic load. The results demonstrated that CSPSWs could have a robust hysteresis curve with viable cyclic performance if designed properly. Finite Element (FE) models were developed and verified against test specimens. A parametric study was conducted using FE models to evaluate the effects of variations in the thickness, aspect ratio, and sub-panel width of the infill plate of beam-only-connected CSPSWs on their cyclic performance.

KEYWORDS:

• Beam-only-connected steel plate shear wall
• finite element analysis
• double infill plate
• hysteretic behavior
• cyclic loading
• corrugated steel plate shear wall

Acknowledgments

Authors are grateful to Eng. M.M. Eghbalian for the construction of test specimens.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).