Sequential Phased Displacement Tests of Wood-Framed Shear Walls with Corners

摘要

This study expands and augments a research project conducted to quantify theeffect of overturning restraint on full-scale shear walls. This study aimed to quantify the effects of corners on uplift restraint of wood frame shear walls tested reversed cyclically and to initiate experiments to quantify an engineering analysis approach for conventional wood-framed shear walls (i.e. without overturning restraint). Four walls with different corner framing were tested under cyclic loading.