The severe damage of precast concrete wall structures that have been recorded in the past earthquake has led to the innovation of the rocking wall concept which can demonstrate free or minimum damage aftershock of an earthquake. Furthermore, extensive research works have been well conducted in the past three decades on the establishment of precast rocking wall systems, designs, details, and techniques. Despite this extensive development, little attention has been devoted to investigate the interaction between the rocking wall systems and the flooring diaphragm. The historical perspective on the development of rocking wall systems over the past few decades in the precast concrete structures is presented. Subsequently, the limited research works on the interaction of precast rocking wall to the floor diaphragm are described. Apart from that, this paper attempts to highlight the application of rocking wall systems in the context of precast connection for the precast load-bearing structures. In this contribution, the precast rocking wall-floor connection for precast load-bearing structures is proposed and presented in this paper.
Wall-slab is a system suitable for use in the field of high-rise building where the main load resisting system is in the form rigidly connected wall-slab member. This paper presents the performance of a full-scale wall-slab joint in tunnel form system subjected to lateral cyclic loading. The objectives are to determine seismic behavior on the hysteresis loops and stiffness.Interior wall-slab joint was tested up to failure drift of 1.5%. The biggest hysteresis loops were occurred at the closest to the double actuator. The stiffness of wall-slab joint started to decrease from 0.25% drift until 0.5% drift and lost it stiffness after 0.5% drift. Incretion of the percentage of reinforcement bars in the wall-slab and proper detailing at joint is required for seismic loading.
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