Performance of centre-sheathed cold-formed steel framed shear walls phase 2
Performance of centre-sheathed cold-formed steel framed shear walls phase 2
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中套冷弯型钢框架剪力墙二期性能
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2019
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Jia Wu
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Jia Wu
To enter into the construction market for mid-rise buildings, the cold-formed steel (CFS) industry needs a solution to address higher seismic shear forces exceeding 60kN/m. The current AISI S400-15 North American Standard for Seismic Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Systems contains only limited design information for steel-sheathed shear walls with low shear resistance values. A new wall configuration in which the sheathing was placed at the mid-line of the framing, denoted the “centre-sheathed” shear wall, was recently developed through a laboratory test program. The centrally confined sheathing resulted in the removal of torsional forces on the frame and a different failure mode that exhibited substantial increase in both shear resistance and ductility in comparison with walls having external sheathing. The initial test walls proved to have shear resistance over four times that currently found in the AISI S400 Standard and could maintain this resistance to drifts exceeding 6%. However, the higher shear forces posed difficulties in designing the framing members and attachments to the foundation given that the structure was composed of cold-formed steel with a maximum thickness of 2.5 mm. Thus, this second laboratory-based study was performed to examine centre-sheathed shear walls with lower shear resistances than those from the previous test program, while maintaining the ability to carry load at high drift levels. In addition, tests were carried out on the bare frame structure to identify the added shear capacity provided by the specially detailed CFS perimeter frame. The present paper contains a summary of the test program, including a report on the measured response of these centre-sheathed shear walls.