Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Department of Environmental Engineering and Construction Managements, Concordia University, Quebec, Canada

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• Research Article   
  Plastic Hinge Length Requirements in Reinforced Concrete Couple Shear Wall Buildings for Seismic Reinforcement Detailing
  Author(s): SK Amjad Hossain* and Bagchi Ashutosh
  
  Proper reinforcement detailing in plastic hinge regions is one of the important measures that could help damage control of structural walls subjected to any severe earthquake event. Inelastic curvatures are commonly assumed to be uniform over a height called plastic hinge length. Non-linear dynamic analyses are performed on a set of coupled shear wall buildings of simple configurations for different heights. Inelastic curvatures are calculated on numerous heights of all the buildings and plotted along with the height of the buildings. Plastic hinge lengths are estimated with the yield curvatures from analytical results. It becomes a common practice to estimate the plastic hinge length equal to 0.5 to 1.0 times the wall length, which basically were developed from experimental studies on beam and column elements. As per the Canadian standards CSA A23.3-04, the re.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2165-784X.2024.14.535

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