Proceedings of the 1st International Multi-Disciplinary Conference Theme: Sustainable Development and Smart Planning, IMDC-SDSP 2020, Cyperspace, 28-30 June 2020

Research Article

Investigation of Plastic Hinge Length of Reinforced Concrete Wall

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  • @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
Doaa Hashim1,*, Alyaa Al-Attar2, Nabeel Kzar3
  • 1: Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq
  • 2: Northern Technical University, Mosul, Iraq
  • 3: Holy Karbala Municipalities, Hindiya Municipality, Karbala, Iraq
*Contact email: doaatalib7@gmail.com

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.