Data Set for Cyclic Tests of Eleven Lightly Reinforced Concrete Walls

Abstract

A series of reinforced concrete wall tests were conducted at the University of Auckland to address the lack of experimental data on flexure-dominant lightly reinforced concrete walls that are common in multistorey buildings in regions of low or moderate seismicity. The experimental program comprised 11 rectangular reinforced concrete walls that were subjected to pseudo-static cyclic loading. The tests were used to investigate minimum vertical reinforcement provisions for reinforced concrete walls and formed the basis for revisions to the New Zealand Concrete Structures Standard NZS 3101 and the US Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete ACI 318. The recorded documentation and data collected throughout the test program have provided a high-quality dataset that is a valuable resource to researchers investigating the seismic behavior of reinforced concrete walls. The dataset is published and publicly available on DesignSafe-CI with the project number PRJ-1648. The methodology of the data collection is described, and a road map for navigating the dataset is presented to support future use of the archived dataset.