抄録
A full scale model of a PC curtain wall of a 15 storied existing steel building is manufactured and tested to obtain its restoring force characteristics. Using the characteristics, seismic responses of the building with walls are calculated and compared with ones without walls. And it is shown that the walls have aseismic effects and, moreover, these effects are enlarged by increasing horizontal stiffness of the walls including joints and adopting friction force values of the bolted joints suitable for the stiffness. Considering the above results, an effective and realistic wall characteristics is proposed for the building and is shown to reduce the responses to about 1/2.
