Shear Deformations of Slender Reinforced Concrete Walls under Seismic Loading

摘要

The discussers appreciate the authors' comprehensive work to analyze and evaluate the shear deformations in rectangular and nonrectangular reinforced concrete (RC) walls derived from the available quasi-static cyclic tests. The significance of the development of shear deformation in the plastic hinge zones is analyzed and assessed. A simplified estimation of the expected shear deformations in walls controlled by flexure was proposed, which could be a supplement to deformation computation using normal inelastic beam elements. Some findings are interesting to the discussers and worthy of further discussion.