Special Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Design Example

P l 25 kips.

Special reinforced concrete shear wall design example.

A guide for practicing engineers nist gcr 14 917 31 prepared by the applied technology council for the national institute of standards and technology gaithersburg md. Design of reinforced concrete load bearing shear wall. Reinforced concrete mechanics and design 7th edition 2016 james wight pearson example 18 2 design data f c 4 000 psi normal weight concrete f y 60 000 psi slab thickness 7 in. Bending strengthof the section has been reduced by about 15 shear strengthat wall base has been reduced by about 14.

Live load at each floor and roof. Shear strength reduced from 7654 lbs to 6589 lbs. Wall thickness 10 in. Based on aci 18 10 4 1 nominal shear strength v n of structural walls is not to exceed vn acv c f c t fy where c is a coefficient defining the relative contribution of concrete.

3500 psi concrete 5 10. P d 40 kips. Provisions chapter 4 presents design coefficients and system limitations for various seismic design categories. Shear in k in ksi in v a f d f d s s a v ns v y v y v v ns 33 1 54 0 0 5 0 5 0 31 60 192 0 5 use 5 bars in bond beams in psi k kips a f p.

Reinforced concrete shear wall analysis and design. A structural reinforced concrete shear wall in a 5 story building provides lateral and gravity load resistance for the applied load as shown in the figure below. Special reinforced concrete structural walls are walls that have been proportioned and detailed to meet special code requirements. Ordinary special precast shear walls.

The changes are a result of the unsatisfactory performance of many shear walls in the chile earthquake of 2010 and the christchurch new zealand earthquake of 2011. 5 bars at 18 in. Seismic design of special reinforced masonry shear walls. Special r c shear walls.

In reinforced concrete buildings the vertical elements are usually either moment resisting frames or structural walls sometimes referred to as shear walls. Service load dead load at each floor and roof. Aci 318 05 design data. Strength reduced from 136 7 to 116 8 in kips.

Special intermediate ordinary two possible seismic resisting systems using reinforced concrete are moment frames and shear walls. The design and detailing requirements for special reinforced concrete shear walls have undergone significant changes from aci 318 11 to aci 318 14. Special reinforced wall shear walls 87 example. Shear wall section and assumed reinforcement is investigated after analysis to verify suitability for the applied loads.

Wall length 18 ft vertical reinforcement. In this example design for 200 kips or 10 greater than 181 kips example. A reinforced concrete load bearing shear wall supporting for a four story building. The requirements of this section apply to special reinforced concrete structural walls serving as part of the earthquake force resisting system.