STUDY ON SLIT STEEL SHEAR WALL

Steel plate shear wall with vertical slits is a new lateral resisting system (LRS) created to resist seismic loads with high energy dissipation as damper, potential for architectural flexibility, and seismic retrofitting possibilities. This paper makes an effort to present Strategy to design slit configuration with more efficiency. The main properties of the models studied by using finite element analysis (FEA) such as lateral strength, stiffness and stress distribution of specimens. Results indicate that without changing the panel’s property (i.e., material or dimensions), stiffness and strength can be fine-tune by changing values of α and β(slit configuration), in other words, by changing the slit design.