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Abstract
A Frame-Buckling Restrained Steel Plate Shear Walls (BRSPSWs) system has been designed, featuring a steel plate connected to frame elements, to withstand lateral loads like seismic or wind forces. This system incorporates recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) to create concrete-filled and concrete panels, promoting eco-friendly and sustainable construction materials. Two single-span, two-floor specimens were tested under cyclic quasi-static load. A four-corner bolted connection was used to connect the steel plate to the square concrete-filled steel tubes (CFTs) column and H-section beam, minimizing the potential deformation of the frame elements produced by the tension field of the steel plate after high-order bucking. The steel plate was sandwiched using either autoclaved lightweight concrete (ALC) or RAC panels. The study analyzed failure modes, load-displacement responses, and characteristic capacities. Test results inferred that BRSPSWs exhibited favorable cyclic behavior, with similar failure modes observed using both ALC and RAC panels. The buckling of steel plates was reduced, and the type of restrained panels had a negligible impact on buckling. Consequently, ALC panels can effectively replace RAC panels. Furthermore, bearing capacities and yield stiffness were primarily determined by the bolted connection forms. A finite element (FE) modeling was developed using ABAQUS software and validated against test results. This FE modeling method successfully simulated failure modes and load-displacement curves. Parametric analyses were conducted and revealed that bearing capacity and yield stiffness positively correlated with steel plate thickness, bolt diameter, and the number of bolts but negatively correlated with the axial compression ratio. In contrast, the panel thickness and span length had a minor impact due to shear deformation in the bolted connection. Based on the test results and parametric studies, an equation for the yield-bearing capacity of BRSPSWs was proposed and verified.
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