For coupled shear walls, coupling beams are the first line of dissipation under earthquakes. So coupling beams are important energy dissipation component. When coupling beams have little depth-to-span ratio, routine coupling beams have less capacity of energy dissipation.There are less design methods for coupling beams with depth-to-span less than 2. In this paper a specimen with steel plate reinforcement coupling beam was designed and analyzed by means of FEM software ABAQUS.

• 진유의(충남대 대학원 석사과정) | Chen, Liu-Yi
• 이강민(충남대 건축공학과 교수, 공학박사) | Lee Kang-min
• 천영수(한국토지주택공사, 토지주택연구원) | Chun Young-Soo
• 이예(충남대학교 석사과정) | Li, Rui
• 오근영(충남대학교 석사과정) | Oh, Keun-Yeong