The Behavior of Infill Walls in RC Frames Under Combined Bidirectional Loading

Mısır İ. S., Özçelik Ö., Girgin S. C., Yucel U.

JOURNAL OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, cilt.20, sa.4, ss.559-586, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 20 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/13632469.2015.1104748
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.559-586
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Reinforced Concrete Infilled Frames, Double-Leaf Wall With Z Ties, Cyclic In-Plane Loading, Simultaneous Out-Of-Plane Loading, Bidirectional Loading, Experimental Methods, Earthquake Engineering, REINFORCED-CONCRETE FRAMES, SEISMIC DESIGN, LARGE-SCALE, MASONRY, PANELS
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Large-scale reinforced concrete frames with five different infill conditions, namely three single-leaf, two double-leaf walls with and without Z-ties, and a bare frame were tested. Under progressively increased in-plane actions, as the main aspect the behavior of walls under simultaneously acting monotonic out-of-plane loads was investigated. All infill walls have doubled the initial stiffness and energy absorption capacity of the frames, and the ultimate strength has increased about 50%. Z-ties have helped the double-leaf wall to maintain its integrity up to higher inter-story drift levels, and improve the out-of-plane stability of the wall.