Design of reinforced concrete walls with openings - strut-and-tie approach

• Main Authors: Li, Bing., Wu, Hui.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Research Report
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Structures and design
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/5192
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

To date limited research on the seismic behaviourof walls with irregular openings has been conducted, and a general design recommendation based on the strut-and-tie models and the capacity design procedures has been provided by the ACI 318 [A1] and NZS 3101 [N6] codes. However, the behaviour of the...