抄録
For grasping the diagonal compressive behaviour of reinforced concrete shear walls with faults, experimental and analytical programs were undertaken. Aoshear wall, a frame and fourteen walls with faults to protect severe failure of boundary columns were tested. One-fifth scale models of walls had faults made at the end of the panel. The variables selected for the test were (1) shape of fault, (2) arrangement of faults. Detail of specimens are shown in Table 1 and Fig.3. Diagonal compression force was applied by hydraulic test machine as shown in Fig.4. Fig.5 indicated hysteresis curves of the specimens in terms of the relationship between compression force and shear displacement of the wall. By having faults in panel, walls showed high capacity of displacement and no collapse was occured at the boundary columns. Calculated hysteresis curves are shown in Fig. 18 compared with test results. The failure mode were adequately identified and the maximum load were estimated with small errors. The displacement at the maximum load were considerably smaller by 50%.
