Experimental Investigation of Steel Frames with Infill Prefabricated Reinforce-Concrete Shear Walls
Zhao Wei,Tong Genshu,Zhou Guangen and Wu Chong
DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1674-4764.2013.01.011
Received ,Revised , Accepted , Available online July 01, 2015
Volume ,2013,Pages 63-69
- Abstract
In order to improve seismic performance of steel frame with prefabricated reinforce-concrete infill shear walls (SFCW), the ear bar device was used in the connection between the steel frame and the infill wall. Two one-bay, two story and one-third scaled models of SFCW were tested with low cyclic load. The working performance of ear bar connection, the cracks development in infill walls and deformation performance of SFCW were investigated. And the failure mode, hysteretic behavior,stiffness degradation,deformation and ductility and energy dissipation of composite structure were analyzed. The comparison study of steel frame with prefabricated, cast-in-place and silt reinforce-concrete infill shear walls was carried out. The results show that no failure occurs in the connection between the steel frame and the infill wall because ear plates below and up the beam-to-column connections are added in the specimens, and the connection device of ear plate presents good working performance. The properly designed SFCW has good ductility.