EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALL AND CONCRETE FRAME

This paper presents an experimental study of steel plate shear wall in the concrete moment frame. This study was based on the idea of using steel plate shear walls in precast concrete structures. The steel plate shear wall was bolted to the embedded plates in concrete boundary elements. These plates were embedded at specified intervals, and friction connection was used for the bolted connections. Semi-static cyclic loading was applied to three different specimens according to ACI T1.1-01 code. Lateral load was applied to the top of specimens. The formation of tension field and buckling waves expressed the required behavior of steel shear walls and, also, good performance of connection scheme. In order to illustrate the effects of adding steel shear plate wall to a concrete frame, one of the specimens was considered to be a bare frame. The results showed the placing of steel shear plate wall in the concrete frame, multiplied loading capacity, initial stiffness, dissipated energy, and equivalent damping of the bare frame by three, eight, twelve, and four, respectively. Horizontal and vertical stiffeners decreased the effects of openings. As diagonal opening with horizontal and vertical stiffeners kept initial stiffness the same and increased dissipated energy and equivalent damping by about 15\%; however, the lateral capacity decreased by 7\%. The results of the strain gauge showed that yielding initiated at a 0.4\% drift level. For the simple steel plate shear wall, the yielding started from corners; for the specimen with openings and stiffeners, it started from the bottom solid panel connected to beam and, also, edges of openings. The stress intensity of the bottom solid panel was more than the rest. Moreover, the steel plate initiated tearing at a drift level of 1.75\%. According to the strain gauge results, embedded corners plates were critical; however, all of them remained elastic. Moreover, it could be said that dissipated energy was obtained from steel plate shear wall. Small bending and shear cracks occurred at the beam-column connection. All of the specimens failed given hinge supports of columns.