Diagonally reinforced concrete coupling beams (DRCBs) have been widely adopted in reinforced concrete (RC) bearing wall systems. DRCBs are known to act as a fuse element dissipating most of seismic energies imparted to the bearing wall systems during earthquakes. Despite such importance of DRCBs, the damage estimation of such components and the corresponding consequences within the knowledge of performance based seismic design framework is not well understood. In this paper, drift-based fragility functions are developed for in-plane loaded DRCBs. Fragility functions are developed to predict the damage and to decide the repair method required for DRCBs subjected to earthquake loading. Thirty-seven experimental results are collected from seventeen published literatures for this effort. Drift-based fragility functions are developed for four damage states of DRCBs subjected to cyclic and monotonic loading associated with minor cracking, severe cracking, onset of strength loss, and significant strength loss. Damage states are defined in a consistent manner. Cumulative distribution functions are fit to the empirical data and evaluated using standard statistical methods.

Coupling beams serve as primary source of energy dissipation in coupled shear wall systems during large earthquakes. However, the overestimation of the shear strength of diagonally reinforced coupling beams may be adverse effect on the seismic performance of coupled shear wall systems. In order to force coupling beams to properly work during earthquakes, coupling beams should be designed with accurate shear strength equations. The objective of this study is to propose the accurate shear strength equation for slender diagonally reinforced coupling beams. For this purpose, experimental tests were conducted using three diagonally reinforced coupling specimens with different amount of transverse reinforcement under reversed cyclic loads to evaluate the hysteretic behavior of the specimens. The test results show that transverse reinforcement of slender diagonally reinforced coupling beam affects the maximum strength and drift ratio.

Shear wall systems behave as individual wall because of openings like window and elevator cage. When coupling beams are installed in shear walls, they will have high strength and stiffness so that be less damaged by lateral loads like earthquake. However, coupling beam is difficult construction method. And arranging reinforcement of slender coupling beams are especially hard. It is because the details of coupling beam provided by ACI 318 are complex. In this paper, experiments were conducted using coupling beams with 3.5 aspect ratio to improve the details of slender coupling beams provided by ACI 318. Two specimens were proposed for this study. One specimen applied with bundled diagonally reinforcement only. Another specimen applied both bundled diagonally reinforcement and High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composite (HPFRCC) so that coupling beams have half of transverse reinforcement. All specimen were compared with a coupling beam designed according to ACI 318 and were evaluated with hysteretic behaviors. Test results showed that the performance of two specimen suggested in this study were similar to that of coupling beam designed according to current criteria. And it was considered that simplification of the details of reinforcement would be available if transverse reinforcement was reduced by using bundled diagonally reinforcement and HPFRCC.

Diagonal reinforced coupling beam of coupled shear walls can provide sufficient strength and stiffness to resist lateral force. However, the reinforcement details for coupling beams required by ACI 318 (2011) are difficult to construct because of the reinforcement congestion and confined interior area. This study presents experimental results about the seismic performance of coupling beams having bundled diagonal reinforcement to improve the workability. Experiments were conducted using half scaled precast coupling beams having an aspect ratio of 2.0. It was observed that the bundled diagonal reinforced coupling beams can develop seismic performance similar to the coupling beams with requirement details specified in ACI 318 (2011).

The hysteretic behavior of diagonal reinforced coupling beams is excellent during earthquakes. However, construction of the diagonal reinforced coupling beams is difficult due to complex reinforcement details required by current code procedures (ACI 318-11). Due to the detail requirement, reinforcement congestion and interference among transverse reinforcement always occur during construction field. When the aspect ratio of the beam is large, the interference of reinforcement becomes more serious. The objective of this paper is to simplify the reinforcement details of slender coupling beams by reducing transverse reinforcement around the beam perimeter. For this purpose, high- performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites are used for making coupling beams. Experiments were conducted using three specimens having aspect ratio 3.5. Test results showed that HPFRCC coupling beams with half the transverse reinforcement required by ACI 318-11 provided identical seismic capacities to the corresponding coupling beams having requirement satisfying the requirement specified in ACI 318-11.

본 연구에서는 내력벽 시스템에 대하여 연결보의 단부에 적용이 가능한 박판형 금속감쇠기의 성능을 실험을 통하여 규명하고자 하였다. 박판형 금속감쇠기의 박판 두께와 길이를 변수로 하여 5개 시험체를 제작하였으며, 층간변위비 5%까지 반복하여 횡력을가력하였다. 실험결과, 금속 박판에 좌굴발생 후 소성변형이 발생하면서 에너지 발산이 이루어졌으며, 기존의 일반 콘크리트 시험체보다에너지 발산량이 크게 나타났다. 박판의 길이가 짧을수록 전단내력의 값은 증가하였으나 발산에너지의 양의 증가는 크게 나타나지 않았다. 실험 내력을 탄성좌굴해석과 비교한 결과, 해석에 의한 내력은 내력곡선 선형영역의 최대값을 적절히 예측함을 알 수 있었다.

An experimental study was conducted to examine for the structural behavior of coupled steel plate shear wall (Coupled SPSW) system what is formed by connection the two steel plate shear walls (SPSW) with a coupling beam. The variable of this study was the length of coupling beam. The testing results were showed that the strength and stiffness of specimen with shorter coupling beam were improved than those of other specimen. However there is no difference of the yielding mechanism.

국내 공동주택 전단벽 구조시스템에 적용되는 감쇠장치는 대부분 인방형 형상으로 적용되고 있다. 인방형 감쇠장치는 좌우 전단벽을 연결하여 커플링 효과 및 추가 감쇠효과를 발휘하여 구조물 내진성능을 증대시킨다. 본 연구에서는 인방형 감쇠장치를 소개하고 감쇠장치가 적용된 구조물의 거동특성을 파악하였다. 제안된 감쇠장치는 힌지 및 변단면 형상으로 감쇠효과를 극대화시킨 구조로 유한요소 해석결과와 실험결과가 잘 일치하여 우수한 내진성능을 발휘하는 것으로 나타났으며, 해당 감쇠장치가 적용된 2차원 및 실제 공동주택 구조물을 대상으로 감쇠효과를 검토한 결과, 감쇠장치 커플링 효과로 기존구조물 대비 모든 구조물에서 내진성능 향상을 도모할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 검토한 실제 구조물에 대해서는 비선형 정적해석 결과, 강도 및 연성능력이 향상되는 것으로 나타났고, 비선형 동적해석 결과, 층간변형각이 15%~18%, 층가속도가 20%~28%, 밑면전단력이 15%~20% 감소하는 결과를 나타냈다.

The coupling beam is recognized that critical structural elements, those whose yield strength is likely to be exceeded in the event of a severe earthquake, should be designed and detailed to exhibit large ductilities and stable hysteretic loop. As a result, the alternation reinforcement details of reinforced concrete coupling beam was investigated.

This paper describes the experimental results for the structural performance of full-scale coupling beams with different reinforcement layout (diagonal and horizontal). For the reinforcements of the coupling beams, high-strength steel bars(SD500 and SD600) were used in order to improve workability and economic feasibility. The rigid steel frames and linked joints were used to maintain the clear span length (distance between both shear walls) of the coupling beam during the cyclic loading. Experimental results indicated that the diagonally reinforced coupling beam specimen could exhibit more ductile behavior compared to horizontally reinforced specimen. ACI318-14 code is applicable to design of coupling beam with diagonally reinforcement, however, that is overestimating the strength of horizontally reinforced coupling beam. It is remarkable that effective elastic stiffness values of both reinforcement details coupling beam significantly lees than ASCE 41-13.

This test was performed to verify the behavior of coupling beam using T-shaped steel for alternation of reinforcement details.

This test was performed to verify the failure mode of coupling beam using T-shaped steel for alternation of reinforcement details.

Coupling beam using L-shaped steel for alternation of reinforcement details was tested to evaluate energy dissipation capacity.

This paper describes the structural performance of coupling beam with diagonal steel tube for reinforcement detail simplification of RC coupling beam. Two coupling beams were made and tested to compare the structural performance of coupling beam with diagonal steel bar and that with diagonal steel tube.

Shear wall system has been widely used in order to secure the ductility of the shear walls for lateral loads. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect on the shear strength of the coupling beams through the Push Over analysis of shear walls in MIDAS program.

This paper indicated the seismic performance evaluation of coupling beam designed by ACI 318 11 and SFRC(Steel fiber reinforced concrete). In this study, SFRC coupling beam added steel fiber of 1.5 %. Teste results indicated that coupling beam reinforced by SFRC shown outstanding absorb energy capacity and stiffness degradation than concrete coupling beam by bridge effect of steel fiber.

This paper describes the analysis results of coupling beams using steel fiber reinforced concrete for comparison with measure behaviors. Analysis is performed by the finite element analysis program, Vector 2. The results show possibility that relieve complex detail of diagonally reinforced coupling beam.

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.

The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of PVA Fiber on flexural yielding coupling beam. Test variable of this study is material type of coupling beam. Test results showed that coupling beam with PVA material experienced multiple micro craks.

The objective of this study is to investigate the failure modes of steel coupling beam-wall connection. Test variable of this study is types of material used, concrete and with pseudo strain hardening cementitious composites (PSH2C). The results showed that Specimen PSH2C-SB with longer embedment length of steel coupling beam exhibits good seismic performance than Specimen HCWS-SB.