%0 Journal Article
%T Influence of Opening Locations on the Structural Response of Shear Wall
%A G. Muthukumar
%A Manoj Kumar
%J Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics
%D 2014
%R 10.1155/2014/858510
%X Shear walls have been conferred as a major lateral load resisting element in a building in any seismic prone zone. It is essential to determine behavior of shear wall in the preelastic and postelastic stage. Shear walls may be provided with openings due to functional requirement of the building. The size and location of opening may play a significant role in the response of shear walls. Though it is a well known fact that size of openings affects the structural response of shear walls significantly, there is no clear consensus on the behavior of shear walls under different opening locations. The present study aims to study the dynamic behavior of shear walls under various opening locations using nonlinear finite element analysis using degenerated shell element with assumed strain approach. Only material nonlinearity has been considered using plasticity approach. A five-parameter Willam-Warnke failure criterion is considered to define the yielding/crushing of the concrete with tensile cutoff. The time history responses have been plotted for all opening cases with and without ductile detailing. The analysis has been done for different damping ratios. It has been observed that the large number of small openings resulted in better displacement response. 1. Introduction Tall reinforced concrete buildings are subjected to lateral loads due to wind and earthquake. In order to resist these lateral loads, shear walls are provided in the framed structure as a lateral load resisting element [1¨C3]. Shear walls possess sufficient strength and stiffness under any loading conditions. The importance of shear wall in mitigating the damage to reinforced concrete structures is well documented in the literature [3, 4]. Shear walls are generally classified on the basis of aspect ratio (height/width ratio). Shear walls with aspect ratio between 1 and 3 are generally considered to be of squat type and shear walls with aspect ratio greater than 3 are considered to be of slender type. In general, the structural response of shear walls depends strongly on the type of loading, aspect ratio of shear wall, and size and location of the openings in the shear walls. Squat shear walls generally fail in shear mode whereas slender shear walls fail in a flexural mode. The presence of openings in shear walls makes the behavior of shear wall slightly vulnerable under dynamic loading conditions. The structural analysis of the shear walls with openings becomes complex due to the stress concentration near the openings [5]. Various experimental investigations have been performed on shear walls
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