Seismic Performance of Shaped Steel Reinforced High‐Strength Concrete Walls: Cyclic Loading Test and Analytical Modeling

ABSTRACT

The thickness of the bottom shear walls in tall and super‐tall structures is often designed too large to meet the limit requirements of axial compression ratios, which increases the weight and cost of the structure. To address this issue, high‐strength concrete (HSC) and shaped steel are combined to form composite shear wall members. This paper focuses on seismic performance and analytical hysteresis model of steel reinforced HSC shear walls (SRHCW) under high axial compressive load. Firstly, the reversed cyclic test was conducted to investigate the influence of concrete strength and the steel ratio on the seismic performance of SRHCWs by comparing the failure mechanism, hysteretic curves, stiffness degradation, ductility, energy dissipation, and steel bar strain variation of each specimen. Then, a hysteresis model for SRHCWs was established, and the model can be used for the nonlinear analysis and seismic performance evaluation of SRHCWs. Finally, the accuracy of the proposed hysteresis model was evaluated by the experimental data. The experimental results show that under high axial compression ratio, the interstory drift ratio capacity of SRHCWs can reach 3.03% showing excellent deformation performance. The wall specimens built with different strength concrete and shaped steel ratios exhibited similar strength, deformation, and initial stiffness, indicating that the steel ratio of the wall can be effectively reduced by upgrading the concrete strength of the wall specimens while ensuring its seismic performance. The analytical model can well predict the hysteresis force–deformation curves of SRHCWs under high axial load ratios.