Sentence examples for coupled walls from inspiring English sources

This corresponds to 0.19% of the height of the 12-story coupled walls (41.9 m) and 0.29% of the height of the 20-story coupled walls (69.1 m).

For comparison, two cases are considered: one using the novel hybrid coupled walls and another using conventional RC coupled walls (RCW).

To calibrate the value of κ in Eq. 3, and to evaluate the applicability of this approach for a relevant range of coupled walls, three sets of coupled walls were studied, having 8, 12, and 20 stories above the base.

Similarly, Figs. 7 and 8 show that the mean yield displacement for the 12-story coupled walls and for the 20-story coupled walls is 0.0785 and 0.198 m, respectively.

An example illustrates the application of these estimates to the performance-based seismic design of coupled walls.

For verification, the proposed method was applied to various existing test specimens of isolated and coupled walls.

Coupling beams within a coupled wall system can be chosen to be identical, having the same dimensions and reinforcement over the height of the coupled wall system.

The models of each coupled wall were subjected to nonlinear static (pushover) analysis using lateral forces applied to the coupled wall in proportional to the first mode forces.

Figure 20 shows the internal shear wall forces and three types of coupled wall deformations.

MacKay-Lyons (2013) developed the viscoelastic coupling damper (VCD) for RC coupled wall high-rise buildings.

Open image in new window Fig. 9 Coupled wall specimens RCSW (Lee et al. 2010).