Seismic performance of flat-corrugated steel shear walls composed of embedded corrugated plate surrounded with flat steel plates
摘要
Steel shear walls (SSWs) have been employed to construct and rehabilitate many structures worldwide owing to their notable advantages, like high strength, stiffness and excellent energy dissipation. This system, which was initially implemented as flat SSWs without stiffeners (FSSWs), was later significantly improved in the shape of the infill plates. In recent research, a new concept for SSW called flat-corrugated steel shear walls (FCSSWs) has been proposed, which uses flat and corrugated sheets in combination. This research reviewed comparatively the lateral behaviour of FCSSWs compared to conventional single-corrugated and traditional FSSWs. This research showed that flat corrugated walls achieve more structural parameters than single-corrugated and flat walls. According to the outcomes, maximum strength, initial stiffness and energy dissipation of flat-corrugated walls are 22.4%, 12.2% and 16.9% higher than single-corrugated walls respectively. Also, comparing flat-corrugated and FSSWs displays an increase of 10.6%, 3% and 9.8% respectively, in the ultimate strength, initial stiffness and energy dissipation parameters in flat-corrugated walls. Outcomes also showed that the corrugation angle of the embedded corrugated plates has little impact on the ultimate strength of FCSSWs.