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Enhancement of Energy Dissipation Capacity for Slitted Steel Shear Walls

Capable of Visual Damage Assessment
 * ** ***
Takuya OKAMURA, Masahiro KURATA, and Masayoshi NAKASHIMA

ABSTRACT A new type of slitted steel shear wall in which small circular holes are
introduced around the slit ends is proposed to enhance its energy dissipation capacity and
preserve its damage assessment capability. Three parameters (hole distance from a slit end,
ellipsoidal width, ellipsoidal height) are examined by a series of numerical analysis. The new
type of shear wall with holes has an increase of 130 % in energy dissipation capacity in terms
of the equivalent viscous damping ratio, all the while the damage assessment capability is
preserved.

Keywords:

Shear wall, slit, lateral torsional buckling, damage assessment, energy dissipation

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SS400 6 mm
1700 x 1046 mm 1
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R
= 0.512 %
25 35
mm

1 R =
0.10.511.523468 %2

3
RR = 0.512 %

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200 175

155 125

203

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203

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Mp

LINK
RLS

MpRLS

dr / 2
(mm)

120

lr = 2br

lr = 3br

lr = 4br

1.2
1.4
1.5

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12-14-2
12-15-2

12-12-3
12-14-3
12-15-3

12-12-4
12-14-4
12-15-4

170

1.2
1.6
2.1

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17-16-2
17-21-2

17-12-3
17-16-3
17-21-3

17-12-4
17-16-4
17-21-4

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1.2
1.8
2.8

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22-18-2
22-28-2

22-12-3
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22-28-3

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200

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4
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440

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1000

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4mm

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be

1900
22-br-2
22-br-3
22-br-4
17-br-2
17-br-3
17-br-4
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1700

W /Qp

1500
1300
1100
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110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210
Effective link width b e (mm)

a W / Qp
300
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22-br-3
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17-br-2
17-br-3
17-br-4
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12-br-3
12-br-4
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250
200
Qp (kN)

R = 3 %

1 %
1/21/3

3 %

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RLS
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5(a)RLS

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RLS be
RLS br
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RLS lr

W /Qp devided by that of SW models

be

200%
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17-12-lr
22-12-lr
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180%
160%
140%
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100 mm 42
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203

400 398 215

1750

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1046

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R = 1.5 %
2 58
B R = 1 % 1
58

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0.5
0.25
0.25

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0
Link width (mm)

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480
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Link height (mm)

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Gauge
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Strain (%)

12 B

load
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Lateral
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Link height (mm)

Link height (mm)

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3%
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Gauge
No.1, 3

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0.75

load
Q (kN)
Lateral
(kN)

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6 heq
R (%)

B / A (%)

0.5
1
1.5
2
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5.80
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13.15
13.55
12.75

7.50
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116
106
100

Equivalent
viscous damping

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0.2
0.18
0.16

bR = 2 %

0.14
0.12

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0.08
0.06
0.04

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Specimen B

0.02
0
0

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(rad) (rad)
Average
Link rotation


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15 A
B
135

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16(b)

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0.7
0.6
0.5

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(2) RLS RLS

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0.3

Specimen A
Specimen B

0.2
0.1
0.0
0

R (%)

Wall drift (%)

15 170 mm

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