Score another small victory for more-constructible high-rises, especially in seismic zones. Results of recent load tests on a "sandwich" shear-wall assembly, designed to simplify and speed ...

The slab-column connections are not part of the lateral system. Though the slab-column connections only take gravity loads, they still have to move with the building as it sways, Shield says. In a ...

Keywords: Earthquake Engineering; Steel; Plate; Shear; Wall; Inclination angle; Tension; Field; LS-DYNA Abstract: Research was conducted to investigate how the inclination angle of the diagonal ...

Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Reduced beam sections (RBS). Infill panels. Seismic performance. Intermediate beams. Ground motion. Buckling. Cyclic tests ...