Abstract Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSWs) have high stiffness, strength, and considerable
energy absorption capability, which have persuaded engineers to utilize the system in their …

In spite of extensive experimental and numerical investigations on steel shear walls, many
ambiguities regarding the behavior of these walls still exist. One of these unknown …

Steel plate shear wall (SPSW) had shown a good performance against lateral load in
laboratories and last earthquakes. Despite its high shear stiffness, its low bending stiffness is …

In spite of the good performance of the steel plate shear wall (SPSW) in recent earthquakes
and experimental studies, the need for huge columns to surround the infill plate is a major …

This paper presents a new configuration for semi-supported steel plate shear walls to
increase their efficiency. For this purpose, the infill steel plate is proposed to be a trapezoidal …

This study investigates the effect of different link beam lengths in the Reinforced Concrete
(RC) frame retrofitted with the Linked Column Frame (LCF) system. It also investigates the …

Panel zone is a part of a column web where surrounded by the continuity plates and the
column flanges. Panel zone plays a vital role in the connection behavior. Despite the …

Despite the considerable advantages of SPSW, there were some shortcomings concerning
the system. Needing huge columns surrounding the infill plate has been the main dilemma …

In this paper, the effect of elliptical shape openings was numerically compared to the case
when circular openings were used in the steel panel shear walls. At first, the finite element …

Five specimens one third scale three-story single bay steel plate shear wall with variant
percentage of Ni-Ti shape memory alloys (SMAs) under cycling loading were analyzed by …