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- Title
Numerical assessment of lateral deflection equation of single-storey light-frame wood shear walls.
- Authors
Niazi, Mohammad; El Damatty, Ashraf A.; Hamada, Ahmed
- Abstract
Based on the decomposition of the deflection into bending, panel shear, nail slip, and base rotation terms, the nonlinear four-term equation specified by the Canadian wood design code provides an estimate of the total lateral deflection of light-frame wood shear walls. This paper reports the creation of a numerical procedure for separating the responses for each term using a detailed nonlinear finite element modeling (FEM) that simulates individual components of shear walls. Since sheathing panel stiffness is not considered in computations of the bending term, the study reveals that bending deformation results calculated using the equation are more conservative than the FEM results. The nail slip term does not reflect the real nail base connection properties. A new equilibrium equation for determining the lateral deflection due to base rotation is presented. The equation is generally conservative because of the omission of some practical considerations.
- Subjects
SHEAR walls; FINITE element method; DECOMPOSITION method; NONLINEAR equations; EQUATIONS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2021, Vol 48, Issue 12, p1663
- ISSN
0315-1468
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/cjce-2020-0135