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Reinforced Concrete
By Peter W. Somers, S.E.
Originally developed by Finley A. Charney, PhD, P.E.

Disclaimer
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 Topic Overview

• Concrete and reinforcement behavior

• Reference standards
• Requirements by Seismic Design Category
– Moment resisting frames
– Shear walls
• Other topics
• Design Examples

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 Topic Overview

• Concrete and reinforcement behavior

• Reference standards
• Requirements by Seismic Design Category
– Moment resisting frames
– Shear walls
• Other topics
• Design Examples

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 Summary of Concrete Behavior
• Compressive Ductility
– Strong in compression but brittle
– Confinement improves ductility by
• Maintaining concrete core integrity
• Preventing longitudinal bar buckling
• Flexural Ductility
– Longitudinal steel provides monotonic ductility at low
reinforcement ratios
– Transverse steel needed to maintain ductility through
reverse cycles and at very high strains (hinge
development)

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 Topic Overview

• Concrete and reinforcement behavior

• Reference standards
• Requirements by Seismic Design Category
– Moment resisting frames
– Shear walls
• Other topics
• Design Examples

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 Reference Standards
16

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Modifications to Reference Standards

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 Context in NEHRP Recommended
Provisions
Provisions  ASCE 7-16  ACI 318-14

ASCE 7-16 for Concrete

Structural design criteria: Chap. 12
Structural analysis procedures: Chap. 12
Design of concrete structures: Sec. 14.2
Provisions modifications to ASCE 7-10
ASCE 7-16 modifications to ACI 318-14

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 Reference Standards

ASCE 7-16:
Defines systems and classifications
Provides design coefficients

ACI 318-14:
Provides system design and detailing
requirements consistent with ASCE 7-16
system criteria
Modified by ASCE 7-16

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 Use of Reference Standards
• ACI 318
– Chapter 18, Earthquake-Resistant Structures
• ASCE 7-16 and Provisions Section 14.2
– Modifications to ACI 318
– Detailing requirements for concrete piles
• Provisions supersede ASCE 7-10
modifications

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 Detailed Modifications to ACI 318

• Wall piers and wall segments

• Members not designated as part of the LRFS
• Columns supporting discontinuous walls
• Intermediate precast walls
• Plain concrete structures
• Anchoring to concrete
• Foundations
• Acceptance criteria for validation testing of
special precast walls

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 Topic Overview

• Concrete and reinforcement behavior

• Reference standards
• Requirements by Seismic Design Category
– Moment resisting frames
– Shear walls
• Other topics
• Design Examples

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Design Coefficients Moment Resisting Frames

Response Deflection
Seismic Force
Modification Amplification
Resisting System Coefficient, R Factor, Cd

Special R/C Moment

8 5.5
Frame

Intermediate R/C
5 4.5
Moment Frame

Ordinary R/C
3 2.5
Moment Frame

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 Performance Objectives
• Special Moment Frames
– Strong column
• Avoid story mechanism
– Hinge development
• Confined concrete core
• Prevent rebar buckling
• Prevent shear failure
– Member shear strength
– Joint shear strength
– Rebar development and splices (confined)

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 Performance Objectives
• Intermediate Moment Frames
– Avoid shear failures in beams and columns
– Plastic hinge development in beams and columns
– Toughness requirements for two-way slabs without
beams
• Ordinary Moment Frames
– Minimum ductility and toughness
– Continuous top and bottom beam reinforcement
– Minimum column shear failure protection

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Summary of Seismic Detailing for Frames

Issue Ordinary Intermediate Special

Hinge development and
minor full
confinement
Bar buckling lesser full

Member shear lesser full

Joint shear minor minor full

Strong column full

Rebar development lesser lesser full

Load reversal minor lesser full

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 Special Moment Frames

• General detailing requirements

• Beams
• Joints
• Columns
• Example problem

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 Frame Mechanisms
“strong column – weak beam”

Story mechanism Sway mechanism

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 Required Column Strength

 Mnc  1.2 Mnb

M nc1

M nb1 M nb2

M nc2

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 Hinge Development

• Tightly Spaced Hoops

– Provide confinement to increase concrete strength
and usable compressive strain
– Provide lateral support to compression bars to
prevent buckling
– Act as shear reinforcement and preclude shear
failures
– Control splitting cracks from high bar bond stresses

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 ACI 318, Overview of SMF:
Beam Longitudinal Reinforcement

200    0.025
fy
At least 2 bars continuous
top & bottom

Joint face Mn+ not less than 50% Mn-

Min. Mn+ or Mn- not less than
25% max. Mn at joint face

Splice away from hinges and

enclose within hoops or spirals

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 ACI 318, Overview of SMF:
Beam Transverse Reinforcement
Closed hoops at hinging regions
with “seismic” hook

135º hook, 6dh  3” extension

Maximum spacing of hoops:

d/4 6db 6”

Longitudinal bars on perimeter

tied as if column bars
2h
min Stirrups elsewhere, s  d/2

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 ACI 318, Overview of SMF:
Beam Shear Strength
1.2D + 1.0L + 0.2S
Mpr1 Mpr2
Mpr  Mn with

n fs  1.25fy ,   1 .0
Ve1 Ve2

Mpr1  Mpr 2 w u n
Ve    Ve by analysis
n 2

If earthquake-induced  1 V
shear force 2 e
then Vc = 0
'
A f
and Pu 
g c

20
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 ACI 318, Overview of SMF:
Beam-Column Joint

Vcol
Vj  T  C  Vcol
T C

T  1.25fy A s, top
Vj

C  1.25fy A s, bottom

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ACI 318, Overview of SMF: Beam-column Joint

20
 
Vn  15  f 'c A j
12 
 
• Vn often controls size of columns
• Coefficient depends on joint confinement
• To reduce shear demand, increase beam depth
• Keep column stronger than beam

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 ACI 318, Overview of SMF: Column Transverse
Reinforcement at Potential Hinging Region

hx hx

 14  h x 
so  4   
 3 
Spacing shall not exceed the smallest of:
b/4 or 6 db or so (4” to 6”)
Distance between longitudinal bas supported by hoops or cross ties, hx  14”

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 Topic Overview

• Concrete and reinforcement behavior

• Reference standards
• Requirements by Seismic Design Category
– Moment resisting frames
– Shear walls
• Other topics
• Design Examples

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 Design Coefficients
Structural Walls (Bearing Systems)
Response Deflection
Seismic Force
Modification Amplification
Resisting System
Coefficient, R Factor, Cd

Special R/C Structural

5 5
Walls

Ordinary R/C
4 4
Structural Walls

Intermediate Precast 4 4
Structural Walls

Ordinary Precast Walls 3 3

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 Performance Objectives
• Special R/C structural walls
– Resist axial forces, flexure and shear
– Boundary members
• Where compression stress/strain is large, maintain
capacity
– Development of rebar in panel
– Ductile coupling beams
• Ordinary R/C structural walls
– No seismic requirements, Ch. 18 does not apply

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 Design Philosophy

• Flexural yielding will occur in predetermined

flexural hinging regions
• Brittle failure mechanisms will be precluded
– Diagonal tension
– Sliding hinges
– Local buckling
– Shear failures in coupling beams

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 ACI 318, Overview of Special Walls:
General Requirements
w
t = parallel to shear plane

 = perpendicular
hw to shear plane

Shear plane, Acv =

web thickness x
length of wall

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 ACI 318, Overview of Special Walls:
General Requirements
•  and t not less than 0.0025 unless
Vu  Acv f 'c
then per Sec.11.6
• Spacing not to exceed 18 in.
• Reinforcement contributing to Vn shall be
continuous and distributed across the
shear plane

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 ACI 318, Overview of Special Walls:
General Requirements
• Two curtains of reinforcing required if:

Vu  2 Acv f 'c
• Design shear force determined from lateral load
analysis

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 ACI 318, Overview of Special Walls:
General Requirements
• Shear strength:
Vn  Acv  c  f 'c   t f y 
c = 3.0 for hw/w1.5
c = 2.0 for hw/w2.0
Linear interpolation between

• Walls must have reinforcement in two

orthogonal directions

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 ACI 318, Overview of Special Walls:
General Requirements
• For axial load and flexure, design like a
column to determine axial load – moment
interaction P
M

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ACI 318, Overview of Special Walls:
Boundary Elements
For walls with a high
compression demand
at the edges – special
boundary elements
are required

Widened end with confinement

Extra confinement and/or

longitudinal bars at end

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 ACI 318: Overview of Special Walls
Boundary Elements
Two options for determining need for boundary
elements
• Strain-based: Determined using wall
deflection and associated wall curvature

• Stress-based: Determined using maximum

extreme fiber compressive

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 ACI 318, Overview of Special Walls:
Boundary Elements—Strain
• Boundary elements are required if:
w
c
1.5 u 
600 
 hw

u = Design displacement
c = Depth to neutral axis from strain
compatibility analysis with loads
causing u

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 ACI 318, Overview of Walls:
Boundary Elements—Strain
• Where required, boundary elements must
extend up the wall from the critical section a
distance not less than the larger of:

w or Mu/4Vu

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 ACI 318: Overview of Walls
Boundary Elements—Stress
• Boundary elements are required where the
maximum extreme fiber compressive stress
calculated based on factored load effects,
linear elastic concrete behavior and gross
section properties, exceeds 0.2f’c

• Boundary element can be discontinued

where the compressive stress is less than
0.15f’c

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 ACI 318: Overview of Walls
Boundary Elements—Detailing
• Boundary elements must extend horizontally not
less than the larger of c/2 or c-0.1w
• Width of boundary elements, b > hu/16 or 12”
• In flanged walls, boundary element must include all
of the effective flange width and at least 12 in. of the
web
• Transverse reinforcement must extend into the
foundation
• Horizontal reinforcement shall extend into the core
of boundary and anchored to develop fy.

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ACI 318: Overview of Walls Coupling Beams

Requirements based on aspect ratio and shear demand

n / h  4 Design as Special
Moment Frame beam

 n / h  2 and Vu  4 f 'c Acw Reinforce with 2

intersecting groups of
diagonal bars

Other cases Standard or diagonal

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 Topic Overview

• Concrete and reinforcement behavior

• Reference standards
• Requirements by Seismic Design Category
– Moment resisting frames
– Shear walls
• Other topics
• Design Examples

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 Members Not Part of LFRS
• In frame members not designated as part of
the lateral-force-resisting system in regions
of high seismic risk:
– Must be able to support gravity loads while subjected
to the design displacement
– Transverse reinforcement increases depending on:
Forces induced by drift
Axial force in member

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 Precast Concrete:
Performance Objectives

Field connections Field connections

at points of low must yield
stress

Strong connections Ductile connections

• Configure system so that hinges • Inelastic action at field
occur in factory cast members splice
away from field splices

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 Topic Overview

• Concrete and reinforcement behavior

• Reference standards
• Requirements by Seismic Design Category
– Moment resisting frames
– Shear walls
• Other topics
• Design Examples from FEMA P-751

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IK5

Special Moment Frame Example

A A’ B C C’ D N
1
• Located in Berkeley, California 2
• 12-story concrete building

7 @ 30’ = 210’
3
• N-S direction: SMF
4
• E-W direction: dual system
5
• Seismic Design Category D
6
• Modal Analysis Procedure
7

8
5 @ 20’ = 100’

Typical Floor Plan

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Slide 47

IK5 Update required.

Insung Kim, 8/4/2016
 Frame Elevations

Grid Lines 3 to 6 Grid Lines 2 and 7

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Story Shears: E-W Loading

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Layout of Reinforcement
#4 stirrup

4 #8 bar,
assumed

28.5”
29.5”
32”
24”
30”

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 Design Strengths

Design Aspect Strength Used

Beam flexure Design strength

Beam shear Maximum probable strength

Beam-column joint Maximum probable strength

1.2 times nominal
Column flexure
beam strength
Column shear Maximum probable strength

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Bending Moment Envelopes:
Frame 1 Beams, 7th Floor

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 Beam Reinforcement: Longitudinal

Design for Negative Moment at the Face of the Interior Support

(Grid A’):

Mu = 1.46(-602) + 0.5(-278) + 1.0(-3,973) = -4,976 inch-kips

One #7 bars in addition to the four #8 bars required for minimum

steel:
As = 4(0.79) + 1(0.60) = 3.76 in^2
a = 3.76 (60)/[0.85 (5) 24] = 2.21 inches
FMn = 0.9(3.76)60(29.5 – 2.21/2) = 5,765 inch-kips
> 4,976 inch-kips
.

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 Beam Reinforcement: Longitudinal
(continued)
Check additional requirements:

Minimum of two bars continuous top and OK (three #8 bars continuous top
bottom: OK (four #8 bars continuous top
and bottom)
Positive moment strength greater than OK (at all joints)
50 percent negative moment strength at
a joint:

Minimum strength along member greater OK (As provided = four #8 bars is

than 0.25 maximum strength: more than 25 percent of
reinforcement provided at joints)

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Beam Reinforcement: Layout

1
4

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 Determine Beam Design Shear
Assumed
hinging
B C mechanism
6,841
Probable moment
strength, Mpr (k-in)

7,929 Vu,grav = 34.1 kips

20’ – 30”
= 17’-6”=210”

M pr1  M pr 2 7,929  6,841

Ve   Vu , grav   34.1  104.4 kips
n 210

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 Loading

Beam Shear
Hinge locations
Force
A A' B C

7,042 7,042 7,042

7,042

(a)
Seismic moment
(tension side)
in.-kips
Beam moments
5,519 5,519 5,519 5,519
210"
15" 240" 15"

58.1 58.1 58.1

(b)
Seismic shear
positive Seismic shear
kips
58.1 58.1 58.1

33.8 33.3 33.3 (c)

Gravity shear
Factored
(1.42D + 0.5L)
32.9 33.3 33.3
kips
positive
gravity shear
91.9 91.4 91.4
25.2 24.8 24.8
(d)
Design shear
seismic + gravity
Design shear
positive
24.3 24.8 24.8
kips
91.0 91.4 91.4

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Beam Reinforcement: Transverse

Vseismic > 50% Vu therefore take Vc = 0

Use 4 legged #4 stirrups

Av f y d 0.75(0.8)(60)(29.5)
smax    10.2 in.
Ve 104.4

At ends of beam s = 6 in.

(near midspan, s = 6.0 in. w/ 2 legged stirrup)

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 Beam Reinforcement: Transverse

• Check maximum spacing of hoops within

plastic hinge length (2h)
– d/4 = 7.4 in.
– 6db = 6.0 in.
– 6 in.

Therefore, 6.0 in. spacing at ends is adequate

At beam rebar splices, s = 4.0 in.

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 Joint Shear Force

Vcol V j  T  C  Vcol
T C

Vj
T  1.25 f y As , top
C  1.25 f y As , bottom
But how to compute Vcol?

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 Joint Shear Force V col

 M pr ,L  M pr ,R   VR  VL  h2 

  h
Vcol
lc
At 7th Floor, Column C:
V e,L M pr,R
 30 
 7 ,929  6,841  70 . 3  70 . 3 
2 

lc
Vcol   108 .2 kips V e,R
156 M pr,L

V col

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 Joint Shear Force
108

282 237

411
T  1.25 f y As ,top  282 kips
C  1.25 f y As ,bot  237 kips
V j  T  C  Vcol  411 kips
Vn  15 f c' A j  15 5,000 (30) 2  955
Vn  0.85  955  811 kips  411 kips

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 Frame 1 Column Design
f 'c Ag
Column: Pu  A A' B

10 PL = 78 kips Includes
PD = 367 kips level 7

M  1.2 M nb

32"
Level 7
then: nc

13'-0"
30"

32"
Level 6

Design column using

standard P-M
interaction curve 20'-0" 20'-0"

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 Column Design Moments

Design for strong column based on nominal beam moment strengths

A A' B
6,406

Beam moments (Level 7)

5,498
M nc  1.2 M nb

1.25,498  6,406   14,285 k - ft

7,142
Column moments (Level 7),
7,142 assume uniform distribution
top and bottom

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Column Transverse Reinforcement

nl: number of longitudinal

bars that are laterally
supported by the corner of
hoops or by seismic hooks

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Column Transverse Reinforcement

Maximum spacing is smallest of:

h/4 = 30/4 = 7.5 in.
6db = 6*1.0 = 6.0 in. (#8 bars)
so calculated as follows:

14  h x
so  4 
3

for 12 #8 vertical bars and #4 hoops,

hx = 8.33 in. and so = 5.72 in.

Next, check confinement requirements……

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 Column Transverse Reinforcement
Assume 4 in. hoop spacing:
fc' < 10,000 psi and Pu< 0.3fc'Ag Equation (c) was not
required.
 f 'c   Ag    5  900 

Ash  0.3 sbc    1  0.3 ( 4 )( 27 )   1  0.63 in 2
   A    60  729 
 f yt   ch  
and
f 'c  5 
Ash  0.09sbc  0.09(4)(27)   0.81 in 2
f yt  60 

Therefore, use #4 bar hoops with 4 legs

Ash = 0.80 in2

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 Determine Column Shear
Based on probable moment strength of columns
and can be limited by probable moment strength of beams

Mpr,top
Mpr,1 Mpr,2 Vseismic

n

Vseismic
Mpr,3 Mpr,4
Mpr,bottom

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 Column Shear Design
Based on column moments:
Mpr,col = 14,940 k-in (12 #8 vert and Pmax)

2(14,940)
Ve   241 kips
(124)

f 'c Ag 5(30)(3)
For Pmin    225 kips,
20 20
Vc can be included in shear calculation

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 Column Shear Design

Assume 6 in. max hoop spacing at mid-height of column

Vc  2 f 'c bd  2 5,000 (30)(27.5)  117 kips

Av f y d 0.8(60)(27.5)
Vs    220 kips
s 6
Vn   (Vc  Vs )  0.75(117  220)  252 kips  241 kips OK

Hoops: 4 legs #4
s = 6 in. max

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 Column Reinforcement
A'

• Confinement length, Level 7

lo, greater of:

32"

2"
• h = 30 in.

7 at 4"
• Hc/6 = (156-32)/6 = (12) #8 bars

#4 hoops
20.7 in.

30"
7 at 6"
+ +

• 18 in. 30"

2" 7 at 4"
– Therefore, use 30 in. Level 6

7 at 4"
32"

2"
30"

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 Structural Wall Example
A A’ B C C’ D N
• Same building as moment 1
frame example
2
• 12-story concrete building

7 @ 30’ = 210’
3
• N-S direction: SMF
4
• E-W direction: dual system
5
• Seismic Design Category D
6
• Modal Analysis Procedure
7

Shear wall @ grid 3-6 5 @ 20’ = 100’

8

Typical Floor Plan

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 Structural Wall

17’-6”=210”

16”

30” x 30” column

Shear wall cross section

Ag = (16)(210)+2(30)(30) = 5,160 sq in

Acv = 16[(210)+2(30)] = 4,320 sq in

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 Shear Panel Reinforcement


 V n   Acv  f c'   t f y 
Vu = 769 kips (below level 2) l Panel  to Acv

f’c = 5,000 psi, fy = 60 ksi

α = 2.0 t
Acv
 = 0.6 (per ACI 9.3.4(a))

Req’d t = 0.0019
Min  (and t) = 0.0025

Use #5 @ 12” o.c. each face:

t= 0.0032 and Vn = 869 kips

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 Axial-Flexural Design

At ground floor: shear and moment determined

from the lateral analysis and axial load from gravity
load run down.

All are factored forces.

• Mu = 30,641 kip-ft
• Pu,max = 6,044 kips
• Pu,min = 2,460 kips

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Axial and Flexural Design

P-M interaction
Wall reinforcement: #5 @12” o.c.
Boundary reinforcement: 12 #9 each end

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 Boundary Element Check
Use stress-based procedure (ACI 18.10.6.3).

Boundary Elements required if max stress > 0.2f’c

Ground level axial load and moment are determined

based on factored forces.

Pu M u 6,044 30,641(12)
    2.46ksi  0.49 f c'
Ag S 5,160 284,444

Need confined boundary element

(extend up to below 9th floor where max stress < 0.15f’c)

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 Boundary Element Length

Length = larger of c/2 or c-0.1Lw

From P-M interaction, max c = 72.6 in.

So, c/2 = 38.8 and c-0.1Lw = 50.6 in

Since length > column dimension, either

• Extend boundary into wall panel
• Increase f’c = reduce boundary element length

For this example, assume f’c = 7,000 psi,

Then req’d boundary element length is 28.7 in.
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 Boundary Element Confinement
Transverse reinforcement in boundary elements is to be
designed essentially like column transverse reinforcement.

Assume #5 ties and 4 in. spacing

f c'  7 
Ash  0 . 09 sb c  0 . 09 ( 4 )( 27 )    1 . 13 in
2

fy  60 

#5 with 4 legs, Ash = 1.24 in2

Width of the flexural compression zone, b > 12in. or hu/16

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 Questions

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