Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Turkey
Approval Date: 2024
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: Samet Erden
Supervisor: Bilge Doran
Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
Abstract:In the past few years, there has been a notable increase in the quantity of residential and commercial buildings. This increase highlights the necessity of considering the resistance of structures against seismic forces and the effects of earthquake loads on structural systems. Structural systems are subjected to large horizontal displacements due to seismic effects. Reinforced concrete shear wall systems, which are preferred in many earthquake-prone zones, demonstrate resistance to large seismic loads while preventing significant horizontal displacements. Reinforced concrete shear walls are widely used in structural systems to provide effective strength and stiffness against the horizontal displacements induced by seismic loads. When positioned effectively in the building plan, these shear walls respond better to earthquake loads. Therefore, the location of shear wall elements has a significant impact on the behavior of the structural system. The main aim of this study is to investigate the actual behavior of shear wall elements positioned differently within the structural systems with different numbers of stories and different soil types, and to compare the results for each case. To achieve this goal, linear elastic designs were carried out for reinforced concrete shear wall elements with geometries corresponding to three different positions in 6, 8, and 10-story buildings designed according to the Turkish Seismic Code (TSC-2018) for soil types ZE and ZC. The example buildings consist of columns, beams, slabs, and reinforced concrete shear wall elements. Nonlinear static analyses were performed based on the geometry and reinforcement details obtained from linear elastic designs. Concrete shear wall elements with the same length and width were modeled in three different configurations, and only the effects arising from the arrangement and location of the concrete walls were compared.