1 Assistant Profssor (Senior Grade), Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai – 600025.
2 Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai – 600025.
3 Former P.G. Student, Division of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai – 600025.
*Email: greeshmas@annauniv.edu
Online published on 7 February, 2013.
The frequent occurrence of the major earthquakes in the Indian subcontinent, and construction of tall buildings, especially over the last two decades demands for the construction of earthquake resistant buildings. Many of the tall buildings had collapsed in recent earthquakes and the reasons attributed were poor design and construction practices. The objective of this work is to discuss the possibilities of modeling reinforcement detailing of reinforced concrete models in practical use. To carry out the analytical investigations, the structure is modeled in a Finite Element software ANSYS. The specimens are modeled as (i) discrete model and (ii) smeared model. It reports the results of the analysis of the flanged shear wall with two different types of modeling under cyclic loading. The consequences of small changes in modeling are discussed and it is shown that satisfactory results are obtained from the two models.
Shear Wall, Modeling, Cyclic loading, Smeared, Discrete
