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Cyclic testing of moment-shear force interaction in reinforced concrete shear wall substructures

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Previous quasi-static cyclic tests of shear walls, which routinely used an incremental lateral displacement test protocol with a constant axial load, failed to reflect the character of moment-shear force interaction of prototype buildings. To study the effect of the moment-shear force interaction on the seismic performance of shear walls, three identical 2-story shear wall specimens with different loading patterns were constructed at 1/2 scale, to represent the lower portion of an 11-story high-rise building, and were tested under reversed cyclic loads. The axial force, shear force and bending moment were simultaneously applied to simulate the effects of gravity loads and earthquake excitations on the prototype. The axial force and bending moment delivered from the upper structure were applied to the top of the specimens by two vertical actuators, and the shear force was applied to the specimens by two horizontal actuators. A mixed force-displacement control test program was adopted to ensure that the bending moment and the lateral shear were increased proportionally. The experimental results show that the moment-shear force interaction had a significant effect on the failure pattern, hysteretic characteristics, ductility and energy dissipation of the specimens. It is recommended that moment-shear force interaction should be considered in the loading condition of RC shear wall substructures cyclic tests.

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The work presented in this paper was supported by funding from the Scientific Research Fund of Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration (2019B05), the Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LH2019E098), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51878631, 51678544), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC1500605, 2018YFC1504602-01). Moreover, the authors would like to thank all reviewers, and in particular one of them for thoroughly checking and providing great insights into our work and improving this manuscript.

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    Ke Du, Huan Luo & Jingjiang Sun

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Supported by: Scientific Research Fund of Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration under Grant No. 2019B05, the Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. LH2019E098, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 51878631 and 51678544, and the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant Nos. 2017YFC1500605 and 2018YFC1504602-01

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Du, K., Luo, H. & Sun, J. Cyclic testing of moment-shear force interaction in reinforced concrete shear wall substructures. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 19, 465–481 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-020-0574-x

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