Reinforced concrete building shear

The primary failure mechanisms encountered in reinforced concrete buildings arc flexure, diagonal tension, and direct shear. Of these three mechanisms,. flexure is preferred under blast loading because an extended plastic response is provider prior to failure. To assure a ductile response, sections are designed so that the flexural capacity is less than the capacity of non-ductile mechanisms. 

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A section though the reinforced concrete shear wall is shown on the following page. This section applies to each of the four sides of the building. 

Type of structural system Reinforced concrete frame buildings (RCF, RC frame buildings with shear walls (RCFS) and RC shear wall buildings (RCS) are among the RC systems considered. 

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Barnes, R. A. and Mays, G. C. (2006), Strengthening of reinforced concrete beams in shear by the use of externally bonded steel plates Part 1 - Experimental programme , Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 20, Issue 6, pp. 396-402. 

There is a dearth of accurate, efficient and reliable analytical approaches for the inelastic static and dynamic analyses of complex reinforced concrete and composite high-rise buildings under extreme loads taking into account shear-flexure-axial interaction, crack propagation and other detailed features of concrete response. In this study, a new approach termed multi-resolution distributed finite element analysis (MDFEA) is proposed and used to analyze a reference RC high-rise building with a dual core... 

Reinforced Concrete Structures in Earthquake-Resistant Construction, Fig. 9 Seismic moments and shears in wall-frame system with box-type of basement (a) schematic moment (M) and shear (V) diagrams in interior wall of seven-story building plus basement (b)... 

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