Behavior of shear wall with openings - A review

摘要

Shear walls have been usually adopted as the lateral load resisting elements in Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings. It has been learnt from past experiences that the shear wall buildings exhibit excellent performance during the severe ground motion due to stiff behavior at service loads and ductile behavior at higher loads thus preventing the major damage to the RC buildings. In practice, shear walls are provided in most of the commercial and residential buildings up to thirty storeys beyond which tubular structures are recommended. In most of the occasions, shear walls are pierced with openings to fulfill the functional as well as architectural requirements of buildings. The structural response of shear wall may be influenced by the presence of openings, depending upon their sizes and their positions. The present study reviews the various experimental and analytical investigations on shear walls in the presence of openings.