Special Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Design Example

Live load at each floor and roof.

Special reinforced concrete shear wall design example.

Wall length 18 ft vertical reinforcement. P d 40 kips. Special reinforced wall shear walls 87 example. 5 bars at 18 in.

Aci 318 05 design data. Service load dead load at each floor and roof. Seismic design of special reinforced masonry shear walls. In this example design for 200 kips or 10 greater than 181 kips example.

On centers in each face a s vertical 5 18 in. A structural reinforced concrete shear wall in a 5 story building provides lateral and gravity load resistance for the applied load as shown in the figure below. Shear wall section and assumed reinforcement is investigated after analysis to verify suitability for the applied loads. Reinforced concrete shear wall analysis and design.

Wall thickness 10 in. Reinforced concrete mechanics and design 7th edition 2016 james wight pearson example 18 2 design data f c 4 000 psi normal weight concrete f y 60 000 psi slab thickness 7 in. Design of reinforced concrete load bearing shear wall. A reinforced concrete load bearing shear wall supporting for a four story building.

Shear in k in ksi in v a f d f d s s a v ns v y v y v v ns 33 1 54 0 0 5 0 5 0 31 60 192 0 5 use 5 bars in bond beams in psi k kips a f p. The changes are a result of the unsatisfactory performance of many shear walls in the chile earthquake of 2010 and the christchurch new zealand earthquake of 2011.