Special Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Design Example

The design and detailing requirements for special reinforced concrete shear walls have undergone significant changes from aci 318 11 to aci 318 14.

Special reinforced concrete shear wall design example.

In this example design for 200 kips or 10 greater than 181 kips example. Aci 318 05 design data. 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. Seismic design of special reinforced masonry shear walls.

5 bars at 18 in. Design of reinforced concrete load bearing shear wall. 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. Special reinforced wall shear walls 87 example.

Wall length 18 ft vertical reinforcement. Live load at each floor and roof. P d 40 kips. A guide for practicing engineers nist gcr 14 917 31 prepared by the applied technology council for the national institute of standards and technology gaithersburg md.

P l 25 kips. Service load dead load at each floor and roof. 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. A reinforced concrete load bearing shear wall supporting for a four story building.

Wall thickness 10 in. 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.