RC walls in Australia: Seismic design and detailing to AS 1170.4 and AS 3600

SJ Menegon, JL Wilson, NTK Lam… - Australian Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reviews the current seismic design procedures for reinforced concrete buildings
in Australia, with direct reference to the Australian earthquake loading code, AS 1170.4 and …

Cyclic tensile-compressive tests on thin concrete boundary elements with a single layer of reinforcement prone to out-of-plane instability

A Rosso, LA Jiménez-Roa, JP De Almeida… - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2018 - Springer
The growing need for residential housing in Latin American countries has led to the
construction of reinforced concrete buildings with wall thicknesses as low as 8–10 cm. Such …

[HTML][HTML] Response of RC shear walls with single and double layers of reinforcements subjected to in-plane cyclic loading

SM Ghaseminia, T Zahra, DP Thambiratnam… - Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls are primarily designed to resist lateral actions in
buildings, in addition to carrying the vertical loads from above. Recent changes in the …

The effect of longitudinal reinforcement ratio on the lateral buckling behavior of R/C walls modelled using prism elements

T Chrysanidis - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Studies on buildings subjected to earthquake action have shown that failure due to lateral
buckling can cause structures to collapse. Therefore, transverse instability, its …

Out-of-plane response of in-plane-loaded ductile structural walls: State-of-the-art and classification of the observed mechanisms

F Dashti, RP Dhakal, S Pampanin - Journal of Earthquake …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Following observations of out-of-plane instability in slender ductile structural walls in some
recent earthquakes, this mode of wall failure has been and is being investigated by several …

Axial response of rectangular RC prisms representing the boundary elements of ductile concrete walls

M Tripathi, RP Dhakal, F Dashti, R Gokhale - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, the axial behaviour of boundary elements of rectangular ductile reinforced
concrete (RC) walls is investigated. For this purpose, axial tests on rectangular RC prisms …

Seismic design of lightly reinforced concrete walls

Y Lu - 2017 - researchspace.auckland.ac.nz
During the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand, several lightly reinforced
concrete (RC) walls in multi-storey buildings formed only a limited number of cracks at the …

Design recommendations to prevent global out-of-plane instability of rectangular reinforced concrete ductile walls

F Dashti, R Dhakal, S Pampanin - Bulletin of the New Zealand …, 2021 - bulletin.nzsee.org.nz
Observations of out-of-plane (OOP) instability in the 2010 Chile earthquake and in the 2011
Christchurch earthquake resulted in concerns about the current design provisions of …

A parametric study on out-of-plane instability of doubly reinforced structural walls. Part II: Experimental investigation

F Dashti, M Tripathi, RP Dhakal… - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2020 - Springer
The effects of different parameters on the evolution of Out-Of-Plane (OOP) instability in
rectangular walls were studied using a validated FEM model. Based on this parametric …

Instability of thin concrete walls with a single layer of reinforcement under cyclic loading: Numerical simulation and improved equivalent boundary element model for …

A Rosso, LA Jiménez-Roa, JPD Almeida*… - Journal of Earthquake …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Thin reinforced concrete walls may fail due to out-of-plane instability when subjected to
seismic loading. While previous numerical studies on wall instability have focused on the …