EFFECT OF LARGE OPENINGS IN UNBONDED POST-TENSIONED PRECAST CONCRETE WALLS Michael Allen Yahya C. Kurama University Of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
ELEVATION wall panel horizontal joint unbonded PT bar spiral reinforcement foundation anchorage
WALL WITH OPENINGS lateral load gravity load opening gap
BASE PANEL compression stresses shear stresses
CRACKING
FINITE ELEMENT MODEL truss elements contact elements nonlinear plane stress elements
ABAQUS VERSUS DRAIN base shear (kips) roof drift (%) DRAIN yielding state gap opening state ABAQUS
ABAQUS VERSUS DRAIN roof drift (%) contact length / wall length ABAQUS DRAIN
BUILDING LAYOUT FOR HIGH SEISMICITY 8 x 24 ft. = 192 ft. 110 ft. N hollow- core panels gravity load frame lateral load frame wall column L-beam inverted T-beam S
WALL WH1 CROSS SECTION 12 in (31 cm) 10 ft (3 m) half wall length #3 spirals sp =7% PT bars a p =1.5 in 2 (9.6 cm 2 ) f pi =0.60f pu C L
PARAMETRIC INVESTIGATION opening size opening location prestress level
OPENING SIZE hoho 2 feet (0.13 h p ) 4 feet (0.25 h p ) 6 feet (0.38 h p ) 8 feet (0.50 h p ) lolo 2 feet (0.10 l p ) 4 feet (0.20 l p ) 8 feet (0.40 l p ) 6 feet (0.30 l p ) 10 feet (0.50 l p ) lolo hoho h p =16 feet l p =20 feet
OPENING LOCATION lolo y 10 feet (0.63 h p ) 8 feet (0.50 h p ) 6 feet (0.38 h p ) lolo 2 feet (0.10 l p ) 4 feet (0.20 l p ) 8 feet (0.40 l p ) 6 feet (0.30 l p ) 10 feet (0.50 l p ) y h o = 6 feet
PRESTRESS LEVEL C L high seismicity medium seismicity
FUTURE WORK model refinement experimental verification parametric investigation strut-and-tie models design recommendations