A shake table test is conducted for the three-story reinforced concrete building structure using 0.28 g, 0.5 g, 0.75 g, and 1.0 g of seismic input motions based on the Gyeongju earthquake. Computational efforts are made in parallel to explore the mechanical details in the structure. For engineering practice, the elastic modulus of concrete and rebar in the dynamic analysis is reduced to 38% and 50%, respectively, to calibrate the structure's natural frequencies. The engineering approach to the reduced modulus of elasticity is believed to be due to the inability to specify the flexibility of the actual boundary conditions. This aspect may lead to disadvantages of nonlinear dynamic analysis that can distort local stress and strain relationships. The initial elastic modulus can be applied directly without the so-called engineering adjustment with infinite element models with spring and spring-dashpot boundary conditions. This has the advantage of imposing the system flexibility of the structure on the sub-boundary conditions of springs and damping devices to control its sensitivity in a serial arrangement. This can reflect the flexibility of realistic boundary conditions and the effects of system damping (such as the gap between a concrete footing and shake table, loosening of steel anchors, etc.) in scalar quantities. However, these spring and dashpot coefficients can only be coordinated based on experimental results, making it challenging to select the coefficients in-prior to perform an experimental test.

Reinforced concrete shear walls with deficient reinforcement details are tested under cyclic loading. The deficiency of reinforcement details includes insufficient splice length in U-stirrups at the ends of horizontal reinforcement and boundary column dowel bars found in existing low- to mid-rise Korean buildings designed non-seismically. Three test specimens have rectangular, babel and flanged sections, respectively. Flexure- and shear-controlled models for reinforced concrete shear walls specified in ASCE/SEI 41-13 are compared with the flexural and shear components of force-displacement relation extracted separately from the top displacement of the specimen based on the displacement data measured at diverse locations. Modification of the shear wall models in ASCE/SEI 41-13 is proposed in order to account for the effect of bar slip, cracking loads in flexure and shear. The proposed modification shows better approximation of the test results compared to the original models.

Reinforced concrete shear walls are effective for resisting lateral loads imposed by wind or earthquakes. Observed damages of the shear wall in recent earthquakes in Chile(2010) and New Zealand(2011) exceeded expectations. Various analytical models have been proposed in order to incorporate such response features in predicting the inelastic response of RC shear walls. However, the model has not been implemented into widely available computer programs, and has not been sufficiently calibrated with and validated against extensive experimental data at both local and global response levels. In this study, reinforced concrete shear walls were modeled with fiber slices, where cross section and reinforcement details of shear walls can be arranged freely. Nonlinear analysis was performed by adding nonlinear shear spring elements that can represent shear deformation. This analysis result will be compared with the existing experiment results. To investigate the nonlinear behavior of reinforced concrete shear walls, reinforced concrete single shear walls with rectangular wall cross section were selected. The analysis results showed that the yield strength of the shear wall was approximately the same value as the experimental results. However, the yielding displacement of the shear wall was still higher in the experiment than the analysis. The analytical model used in this study is available for the analysis of shear wall subjected to high axial forces.

본 논문은 콘크리트 균열방향의 회전 및 철근의 항복에 따른 2차원 R/C 구조물의 극한거동 덴 한계상태설계에 관한 연구를 다룬 것으로, 유한요소모델에 적용하여 비선형 해석 및 한계상태설계가 가능한 수치 해석 및 설계 알고리즘을 소개하였다. 철근의 설계를 위하여, 각 유한요소의 극한거동에 기초한 한계상태설계방정식이 유한요소 알고리즘에 도입되었다. 한편, 하중에 따른 콘크리트 균열방향의 회전 및 철근의 항복을 고려한 2차원 R/C 평면요소의 단순화된 실용적 비선형 응력-변형률 거동의 구성관계모델을 제시하여 비선형 유한요소해석 알고리즘을 구성하였다 제시된 해석 모델을 R/C 전단벽의 실험모델과 비교하여 검증하도록 하였으며, R/C 전단벽에 대한 설계 예를 통하여, 각각의 유한요소에서 얻어진 설계 철근비를 한계상태설계방정식으로부터 산정하였다.

This study is to evaluate the reinforcement details of reinforced concrete special shear wall systems. The use U-shaped transverse reinforcement and relaxed reinforcement regulations within special boundary elements in shear wall is shown to improve the construction issue caused by over-design by borrowing architectural structural standards in strong earthquake area. This result will give a basis for improving the performance of shear walls with use of U-type transverse bars.

This study investigates the effectiveness of a wall fiber element in predicting the flexural nonlinear response of reinforced concrete shear walls. Model results are compared with experimental results for reinforced concrete shear walls with barbell-shaped cross sections. The analytical model is calibrated and the test measurements are processed to allow for a direct comparison of the predicted and measured lateral force and displacement responses. Response results are compared at top displacements on the walls. Results obtained in the analytical model for barbell-shaped wall cross sections compared favorably with experimentally responses for flexural capacity, stiffness, and deformability.

건축물의 증가와 자원의 효율적인 활용의 목적으로 기존 건축물에 대한 리모델링이 주목을 받고 있다. 리모델링 공사로 인해 세대간 병합을 위해 기존 벽에 개구부를 설치하는 경우 개구부의 영향을 파악 하는 것을 목적으로 철근콘크리트 전단벽의 정적가력 실험을 실시했다. 그 결과 개구부 유무에 따른 파괴현상은 벽판에 형성된 압축지주의 단면적이 감소함으로써 다르게 나타났다. 특히 최대 내력은 개구부 설치에 따라 약 35%정도 감소되는 특성을 보였다. 이러한 경향은 강성 및 에너지 소산능력에서도 유사하게 나타났다.