Closed-form and numerical solution of the static and dynamic analysis of coupled shear walls…

Fig. 11 Coupled shear walls for the validation of the model and continuous method proposed

Table 12 Accuracy of lateral displacement at the top of the

parametric analysis are detailed below. For all cases, the coupled shear wall using the proposed three-field CTB-type
length between shear walls is 2.00 m, the width of the shear beam model
wall and the connecting beam is 0.40 m. The height of all Proposed three-field continuous CTB beam model
the stories is ℎ = 2.80 m, the modulus of elasticity of the N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
structure is 𝐸 = 25 × 106 kN/m2, the shear modulus is 𝐺 = CSW 1
Error 7.49% 6.22% 4.39% 3.19% 2.39% 1.71%
10.42 × 106 kN/m2. N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
In order to cover all the possible cases used in the CSW 2
Error 4.94% 3.20% 2.11% 1.46% 1.06% 0.73%
practice of tall buildings, nine cases are analysed. The cases
N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
𝐶𝑊𝑆1 − 𝐶𝑊𝑆2 − 𝐶𝑊𝑆3 correspond to shear walls with a CSW 3
Error 1.27% 0.72% 0.50% 0.36% 0.27% 0.16%
length of 5.00 m where the height of the connecting beam
varied between 0.60 m, 0.80 m and 1.00 m respectively. N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
CSW 4
The cases 𝐶𝑊𝑆4 − 𝐶𝑊𝑆5 − 𝐶𝑊𝑆6 correspond to shear Error 5.08% 6.36% 5.06% 3.90% 3.04% 2.42%
walls with a length of 7.50 m where the height of the N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
CSW 5
connecting beam varied between 0.60 m, 0.80 m and 1.00 m Error 4.07% 3.77% 2.72% 1.99% 1.50% 1.16%
respectively. The cases 𝐶𝑊𝑆7 − 𝐶𝑊𝑆8 − 𝐶𝑊𝑆9 N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
CSW 6
correspond to shear walls with a length of 10.00 m where Error 1.55% 1.26% 0.92% 0.68% 0.51% 0.40%
the height of the connecting beam varied between 0.60 m, CSW 7
N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
0.80 m and 1.00 m respectively. Error 3.25% 5.87% 5.27% 4.30% 3.47% 2.83%
N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
CSW 8
5.4.1 Static analysis Error 2.87% 3.80% 3.01% 2.32% 1.80% 1.43%
The particular case of the coupled shear wall subjected N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
to a uniformly distributed lateral load of 10 kN/m CSW 9
Error 1.15% 1.43% 1.12% 0.87% 0.68% 0.54%
throughout the height is studied. The comparison parameter
was the lateral displacement of the top of the coupled shear Table 13 Accuracy of lateral displacement at the top of the
wall. The results of the error in the calculation of the lateral coupled shear wall using the classic sandwich beam model
displacement in the upper part of the coupled shear wall for
all cases using the CTB type model of three proposed fields Continuous model of classical sandwich beam
is shown in Table 12 and the model used by Dr. Zalka is N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
CSW 1
shown in the Table 13. Error -16.69% -8.68% -5.46% -3.63% -2.52% -1.94%
Tables 14 and 15 present a summary of the lateral N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
CSW 2
displacement results at the top of the coupled shear wall. Error -22.62% -11.39% -6.47% -3.98% -2.61% -1.86%
The terms difference range are used to refer to the minimum N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
CSW 3
and maximum error range, mean absolute error to refer to Error -27.18% -12.82% -6.84% -4.02% -2.51% -1.68%
the average of the absolute errors, and absolute maximum N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
error to express the maximum error found in the parametric CSW 4
Error -28.61% -14.40% -9.31% -6.43% -4.62% -3.44%
analysis. The results of the proposed model demonstrate its N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
efficiency in comparison with the classic sandwich beam CSW 5
Error -34.59% -18.53% -11.29% -7.37% -5.08% -3.66%
model that has been widely used in the literature. In the case N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
of the proposed model, all the errors were conservative with CSW 6
Error -39.61% -21.04% -12.28% -7.74% -5.20% -3.66%
an error between 0.16% and 5.27% for coupled shear walls
N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
with a number of stories greater than or equal to 15. In CSW 7
Error -39.88% -20.63% -13.59% -9.62% -7.08% -5.38%
comparison, the classic sandwich beam model showed an
error between the -6.02% and -18.16%, not being N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
CSW 8
conservative in all cases. For an extreme case of 5-story Error -45.37% -25.78% -16.54% -11.21% -7.95% -5.86%
coupled shear walls, the proposed model showed a very N° story 5 10 15 20 25 30
CSW 9
good accuracy of 7.49% compared to the sandwich beam Error -50.15% -29.14% -18.16% -11.97% -8.31% -6.02%