Lateral Loading of Small-Scale Shear Wall Buildings with Floor Slabs

Abstract

<p> This thesis describes the construction and testing of small-scale shear wall buildings with rigidly connected floor slabs, but without wall openings. A micro-concrete material was used in the casting of both the basic small-scale shear wall buildings and the floor slabs. The vertically cantilevered buildings were tested by applying a transverse static load at the top of the buildings.</p> <p> The behaviour of buildings with only floor slabs was compared with that of buildings containing only wall openings. The results of static loading of the buildings were compared with those results predicted analytically using Vlasov's thin-walled elastic beam theory.</p>