Special Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Design Example

Reinforced concrete shear wall analysis and design.

Special reinforced concrete shear wall design example.

In this example design for 200 kips or 10 greater than 181 kips example. Wall thickness 10 in. 5 bars at 18 in. Special reinforced wall shear walls 87 example.

Shear in k in ksi in v a f d f d s s a v ns v y v y v v ns 33 1 54 0 0 5 0 5 0 31 60 192 0 5 use 5 bars in bond beams in psi k kips a f p. Live load at each floor and roof. Wall length 18 ft vertical reinforcement. The design and detailing requirements for special reinforced concrete shear walls have undergone significant changes from aci 318 11 to aci 318 14.

Design of reinforced concrete load bearing shear wall. A reinforced concrete load bearing shear wall supporting for a four story building. Aci 318 05 design data. Service load dead load at each floor and roof.

Reinforced concrete mechanics and design 7th edition 2016 james wight pearson example 18 2 design data f c 4 000 psi normal weight concrete f y 60 000 psi slab thickness 7 in. A structural reinforced concrete shear wall in a 5 story building provides lateral and gravity load resistance for the applied load as shown in the figure below. A guide for practicing engineers nist gcr 14 917 31 prepared by the applied technology council for the national institute of standards and technology gaithersburg md. On centers in each face a s vertical 5 18 in.

P d 40 kips. Seismic design of special reinforced masonry shear walls.