Stiffness Of Reinforced Concrete Walls

A reinforced wall either poured concrete or concrete block always contains some form of reinforcing steel.

Stiffness of reinforced concrete walls.

The reinforcement is usually though not necessarily steel reinforcing bars and is usually embedded passively in the concrete before the. They often act as primary elements of a structure s lateral stability systems and by doing so are subjected to high in plane bending forces. They support vertical loads and are vulnerable to minor axis bending. The basis for the effective stiffness values or expressions and their applicability to nuclear power plant elements is not clearly presented in current seismic standards.

Strength reduced from 136 7 to 114 9 in kips. In their discussion of stiffness modifiers for frame members they emphasize the inherent approximation in the use of stiffness modifiers. Rc squat walls have height to length ratios less than or equal to 2. Assessing the damage severity of buildings after an earthquake is an important part of the emergency inspection operation of buildings.

For walls designed in. This paper studies the effective stiffness of reinforced concrete rc squat walls under lateral loads. Reinforced concrete walls with height to length ratios of approximately two and less are commonly used in power plant structures to resist earthquake effects. 2 5 clear to strength steel 5 12 rather than the designed 5 10 bending strength of the section has been reduced by about 16.

Paulay and priestley provide recommendations for stiffness modifiers for cracked concrete frame members and shear walls. The presence of reinforcing steel dramatically increases the overall strength characteristics of masonry or concrete. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the stiffness and strength of damaged rectangular reinforced concrete shear walls after an earthquake using surface crack patterns. Two large scale reinforced concrete walls without aci 318 14 special boundary elements were tested under constant axial gravity load of 0 053agfc combined with reversed cyclic quasi static.

Paulay and priestley 1992 seismic design of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings. Determination of wall stiffness is of particular importance for establishing design forces on attached equipment. Reinforced concrete rc also called reinforced cement concrete or rcc is a composite material in which concrete s relatively low tensile strength and ductility are counteracted by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility. The coe cient of normal force influence can have a value of 0 cw 1 25.

Design of reinforced concrete walls are in many ways like columns.