Abstract
A novel type of steel plate shear wall for withstanding lateral forces was proposed. Inclined stiffeners (acting as tension field guiding stiffeners) were added at the corners of the shear wall and a middle link beam was created, similar to the eccentrically braced frames (EBF). Therefore, upon adding diagonal members to the shear wall, the system resembled a combination of a steel plate shear wall system with an EBF system.To study the cyclic performance of the system equipped with the guiding stiffeners, a scaled specimen of the shear wall was made and subjected to cyclic loading. Finite element model of the wall was simulated and validated using the corresponding laboratory data. Then, a comparison between the proposed shear wall and the corresponding unstiffened steel plate shear wall was made. In the proposed system, the guiding stiffeners can alter the pattern of the tension field, pushing away the plastic strains from the column face toward the link beam. This helps the columns and connections remain intact. As a result, the system failure mechanism includes two-stage ductile fuses, including the steel plate yielding in tension, and flexural stresses or shear plastic hinges at the link beam ends. Compared to the unstiffened steel shear wall, the fuses help dissipate more energy in the proposed shear wall. In general, diagonal tension field guiding stiffeners can enhance the lateral force capacity, ductility, energy absorption, and stiffness of the system simultaneously.
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