Published July 2, 2015 | Version v2
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Database on 16 reinforced concrete walls with lap splices and 8 reference units with continuous reinforcement (V2 models included)

Authors/Creators

  • 1. EPFL, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Laboratory (EESD), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Description

Recent post-earthquake missions have shown that both old and code-compliant reinforced concrete wall buildings can experience critical damage due to lap splices, which led to a recent surge in experimental tests of walls with such constructional detail. Most of the 16 walls with lap splices described in the literature thus far were carried out in the last five years. A database with these wall tests, plus 8 reference unit walls with continuous reinforcement, is herein provided alongside with the shell element models developed in Vector2 to simulate their inelastic F-D response

If the experimental data or the models are used, please cite:

- J.P. Almeida, O. Prodan, D. Tarquini, K. Beyer, 2017. "Influence of lap-splices on the cyclic inelastic response of
reinforced concrete walls. I: Database assembly, recent experimental data, and findings for model development", ASCE
Journal of Structural Engineering 143 (12), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0001853.

- D. Tarquini, J.P. Almeida, O. K. Beyer, 2017. "Influence of lap-splices on the cyclic inelastic response of reinforced
concrete walls. II: Shell element simulation and equivalent uniaxial model", ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering 143
(12), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0001859.

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