A Study on Steel Plate Shear Wall

Abstract

The main objective of this research study was to evaluate the parameters of stiffened and unstiffened steel plate shear wall under seismic loads. The scope of effort included simulating five unstiffened steel plate shear wall with varying thickness, three singly stiffened steel plate shear wall, and three doubly stiffened steel plate shear wall. The validation and simulation was done using software package ANSYS v16 using loads derived from ETABS. Overall, Unstiffened steel plate shear walls produced high in-plane and out of plane displacements which decreased with increase in thickness of plate; than singly stiffened followed by doubly stiffened steel plate shear walls. With introduction of stiffener in steel plate shear wall, the in-plane displacement values reduced by about 1%, and about 3% when doubly stiffened on the other hand the out of plane came down by 50% when stiffened singly and also when doubly stiffened. It was noteworthy that stiffener does not play any significant effect on any parameter except for out of plane displacement.