Research Article
Investigation of Plastic Hinge Length of Reinforced Concrete Wall
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.28-6-2020.2298214, author={Doaa Hashim and Alyaa Al-Attar and Nabeel Kzar}, title={Investigation of Plastic Hinge Length of Reinforced Concrete Wall}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Multi-Disciplinary Conference Theme: Sustainable Development and Smart Planning, IMDC-SDSP 2020, Cyperspace, 28-30 June 2020}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={IMDC-SDSP}, year={2020}, month={9}, keywords={plastic hinge length reinforced shear wall parametric study finite element analysis}, doi={10.4108/eai.28-6-2020.2298214} }- Doaa Hashim
Alyaa Al-Attar
Nabeel Kzar
Year: 2020
Investigation of Plastic Hinge Length of Reinforced Concrete Wall
IMDC-SDSP
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.28-6-2020.2298214
Abstract
This study investigates the effect of certain parameters on the magnitude of plastic hinge length of RC shear walls and proposes an analytical expression for estimating the plastic hinge length. A finite element model was analyzed and validated with experimental test results for an existing study and a parametric study was performed for it. The established results were according to several parameters such as axial load ratio, slenderness ratio and wall length. The numerical results showed a different impact of these parameters on the formation of the plastic hinge length. In this study, a new simple expression was derived based on those parameters using statistical package software. Proposed plastic hinge expression was compared with the results of the plastic hinge length obtained from FE analysis. Finally, the accuracy of the proposed equation was validated by using the shear wall results from the literature researches.
