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Slender reinforced concrete shear walls with high-strength concrete boundary elements

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Reinforced concrete structural walls are commonly used for resisting lateral forces in buildings. Owing to the advancements in the field of concrete materials over the past few decades, concrete mixes of high compressive strength, commonly referred to as high-strength concrete (HSC), have been developed. In this study, the effects of strategic placement of HSC on the performance of slender walls were examined. The finite-element model of a conventional normal-strength concrete (NSC) prototype wall was validated using test data available in extant studies. HSC was incorporated in the boundary elements of the wall to compare its performance with that of the conventional wall at different axial loads. Potential reductions in the reinforcement area and size of the boundary elements were investigated. The HSC wall exhibited improved strength and stiffness, and thereby, allowed reduction in the longitudinal reinforcement area and size of the boundary elements for the same strength of the conventional wall. Cold joints resulting from dissimilar concrete pours in the web and boundary elements of the HSC wall were modeled and their impact on behavior of the wall was examined.

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The financial support extended by the J. N. Tata Endowment, India, to the first author during the course of this study is highly appreciated.

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Syed, M., Okumus, P. Slender reinforced concrete shear walls with high-strength concrete boundary elements. Front. Struct. Civ. Eng. 17, 138–151 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-022-0897-y

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