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Seismic behavior of precast concrete coupled shear walls with yielding-based and friction-based coupling beams

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An innovative bolt-connected precast concrete (PC) shear wall structural system has recently been proposed for middle and high-rise buildings in seismic regions. As a further research step, this paper aims to investigate the seismic behavior of PC coupled shear wall with different types of dissipative coupling beams. The quasi-static cyclic tests on two PC coupled shear wall specimens with friction-based coupling beam (FCB) and yielding-based coupling beam (YCB) were conducted. Moreover, nonlinear finite element models of the specimens were established and validated with the experimental results. The results demonstrated that the proposed dissipative coupling beams can effectively couple the wall panels in elastic field, whilst they can sustain large plastic deformation adding to the structural assembly a relevant source of energy dissipation under thresholded actions. Whilst the specimen with YCB exhibited large overstrength in plastic field, the specimen with FCB provided a more stable plateau capacity associated to enhanced deformation capacity, ductility and energy dissipation. Moreover, the FCB resulted practically undamaged and immediately reusable at the end of the test, whilst the YCB was found highly plasticized and locally torn. In addition, the detailed finite element models of the test specimens accurately predicted the experimental behavior.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express heartfelt gratitude to the financial support by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 51708107), the Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation (No. BK20170668), and the China National Scholarship Council (No. 202106090252).

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  1. Space Structures Research Center, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China

    Qiang Fang

  2. Key Laboratory of Structural Engineering of Guizhou Province, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China

    Qiang Fang

  3. Key Laboratory of Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Structures of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Jian Sun & Hongxing Qiu

  4. Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Insubria University, 21100, Varese, Italy

    Bruno Dal Lago

  5. College of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, China

    Weihong Chen

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QF methodology, investigation, validation, data curation, visualization, writing-original draft, writing-review and editing. JS: conceptualization, methodology. HQ: supervision. BDL: investigation, writing-original draft, writing-review and editing, WC: investigation, writing-review and editing.

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Fang, Q., Sun, J., Qiu, H. et al. Seismic behavior of precast concrete coupled shear walls with yielding-based and friction-based coupling beams. Archiv.Civ.Mech.Eng 23, 104 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43452-023-00647-1

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