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Steel and Composite Structures
  Volume 22, Number 5, December10 2016 , pages 1055-1071
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2016.22.5.1055
 


Seismic behavior of steel frames with replaceable reinforced concrete wall panels
Hanheng Wu, Tianhua Zhou, Fangfang Liao and Jing Lv

 
Abstract
    The paper presents an innovative steel moment frame with the replaceable reinforced concrete wall panel (SRW) structural system, in which the replaceable concrete wall can play a role to increase the overall lateral stiffness of the frame system. Two full scale specimens composed of the steel frames and the replaceable reinforced concrete wall panels were tested under the cyclic horizontal load. The failure mode, load-displacement response, deformability, and the energy dissipation capacity of SRW specimens were investigated. Test results show that the two-stage failure mode is characterized by the sequential failure process of the replaceable RC wall panel and the steel moment frame. It can be found that the replaceable RC wall panels damage at the lateral drift ratio greater than 0.5%. After the replacement of a new RC wall panel, the new specimen maintained the similar capacity of resisting lateral load as the previous one. The decrease of the bearing capacity was presented between the two stages because of the connection failure on the top of the replaceable RC wall panel. With the increase of the lateral drift, the percentage of the lateral force and the overturning moment resisted by the wall panel decreased for the reason of the reduction of its lateral stiffness. After the failure of the wall panel, the steel moment frame shared almost all the lateral force and the overturning moment.
 
Key Words
    steel moment frame; replaceable wall panel; cyclic test; seismic behavior; two-stage failure
 
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