A shear wall with concrete filled steel tube (CFST) columns and encased steel truss is a new type of shear wall. To determine the seismic performance of the new shear wall, an experiment was carried on a 1/5-scale model. Based on the experimental study, the load-carrying capacity, stiffness, ductility, hysteretic property, energy dissipation and failure phenomena of the model were analyzed. It shows that the seismic performance of a shear wall with CFST columns and encased steel truss has high bearing capacity, stiffness, energy dissipation capacity and good ductility. In addition, a numerical elastic-plastic finite element (FE) analysis of a shear wall with CFST columns and encased steel truss were carried out. The computation results were in good agreement with the test results. FE software, ABAQUS, was used to change the ratio of steel truss to steel tubes and normalized axial force. The influences of different parameters of shear walls were carried out.Keywords: CFST; encased steel truss; shear wall; seismic performance; experimental research
IntroductionIn high-rise buildings, the shear wall is usually the main structural component that resists the lateral force. Shear wall with CFST columns is a new type wall developed in recent years (Han and Yang, 2007). Researches have been carried out by some scholars. Kang, T.H. -K et al. (2013) made a careful study of a steel plate shear wall, and found that a properly designed steel plate shear wall would have considerable energy dissipation capacity, ductility, and ultimate strength. Probst, A.D. et al. (2010) studied the composite flexural behavior of full-scale concrete-filled tubes without axial loads. Abolhassan (2001) investigated a steel plate shear wall with CFST columns. During his test, the CFST columns were basically in an elastic state and the specimen showed good ductility and energy dissipation capacity. Qian et al. (2012) conducted a low cyclic loading test on a shear wall with CFST columns. The test results showed that the shear wall had larger load-carrying and deformation capacities relative to the conventional RC wall. Wang et al. (2015) studied the seismic behavior of a lowrise shear wall with CFST frame and embedded steel-