Abstract
A steel sandwich panel usually used as finishing materials has a potential of increasing structural performance of building frames. In this paper, authors have proposed steel sandwich panel walls for retrofit of conventional post and beam wooden structures for resisting against lateral forces, in which sandwich panels are affixed to the wooden structure with screws. The steel sandwich panel consists of double thin steel sheets and a nurate core which is resistant to fire and lateral forces. In-plane shear tests are conducted to examine the structural performance. The results show that the panel exhibited stable and satisfactory behavior. In addition, the several performance indices are provided based on the test results and an example of the retrofitting application to actural wooden structure.
