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Abstract：Assembled shear wall built with precast two-way hollow slab is a new-typed shear wall built with precast concrete. In order to study its mechanical property, a quasi-static experiment is conducted with 1 reinforced concrete shear wall and 2 new type shear walls as the study objects. It was found that the internal and vertical joints of the wall body were vulnerable parts so that the new-typed shear wall experienced the loading process from the whole wall to the portioned wall. So, brittle shear failure can be avoided, deformability and anti-collapse performance are greatly improved, and shear capacity of wall body is reduced. The new-typed shear wall is reasonably structured, with convenient and reliable horizontal and vertical reinforcement, which leads to satisfactory vertical joint force-bearing capacity. Thus, it can be applied in practical construction.

Summary The two‐way hollow core precast panel (TWHCPP) exhibits good seismic performance. In this study, the shear behavior of the TWHCPP shear wall with vertical connections was investigated. Specifically, five shear wall specimens, which comprised one cast‐in‐place shear wall, one TWHCPP shear wall without vertical connections, and three TWHCPP shear walls with vertical connections, were investigated experimentally. The TWHCPP shear walls were also modeled through numerical simulation. The experimental and numerical results indicate that the TWHCPP shear wall specimens with vertical connections exhibit monolithic load‐bearing mechanisms before the peak point, which is similar to the cast‐in‐place shear wall specimen. When the peak point of the TWHCPP shear wall specimen was attained, vertical slits were formed in the vertical connection and major vertical crack regions, which divided the shear wall panel into multiple vertical concrete straps. Subsequently, the load‐bearing mechanism of the TWHCPP shear wall transformed to multiple vertical concrete straps working cooperatively with transverse reinforcements. Therefore, the brittle diagonal tension failure mode could be avoided, and a good hysteretic performance could be achieved. The outcomes of this study are expected to provide a useful reference for the application of the TWHCPP shear wall.

Abstract:In order to meet the needs of performance-based seismic design, a new type of adaptive-slit shear wall that is easy to construct and behaves well under cyclic loading is introduced to improve the seismic performance of conventional shear wall structures. The seismic damage of an adaptive-slit shear wall develops gradually and it transforms from integral wall into slit wall. The mechanical characteristics of adaptive-slit shear walls suggest that such walls are adaptive to various seismic requirements under earthquakes of different intensities. Compared with conventional shear walls, the new wall is highly ductile and is advantageous in controlling the seismic damage process.