Abstract
Cold-formed steel (CFS) shear walls are widely used in many engineering practice owing to their superiorities such as light weight, better ductility and easy construction. This research is focused on the behaviour of a new CFS braced-truss shear wall system which is different in skeleton configuration compared to conventional CFS framed walls. A full scale test program was conducted on walls of four different configurations. The specimens' maximum lateral load capacity, maximum deformation and failure modes of the system were investigated in this study in order to suggest improvements for future researches. The study showed that the performance of this kind of braced-truss CFS shear wall is satisfactory and using truss elements in the side span of the wall can cause higher strength compared to knee- and K-braced wall systems tested by the other researchers. In addition, application of diagonal members can decrease the chance of track and chord buckling.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Engineering Materials, Structures and Systems: Innovations, Mechanics and Applications: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2019), September 2-4, 2019, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Pages | 192-196 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781138386969 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Event | International Conference on Structural Engineering_Mechanics and Computation - Duration: 2 Sept 2019 → … |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Structural Engineering_Mechanics and Computation |
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| Period | 2/09/19 → … |
Keywords
- cold working
- dynamic testing
- shear walls
- steel
- trusses