Hamid Moharrami
Tarbiat Modares University
Iran
Title: Side-Sway Control in Semi-Supported Steel Shear Walls
Biography
Biography: Hamid Moharrami
Abstract
Control of drift in high-rise buildings is a major design problem. Many valuable attempts have been made in the literature to simplify the evaluation of side-sway in steel shear walls. Although semi-supported steel shear walls have many similarities with ordinary steel shear walls, they are designed somehow differently because of some considerations in their behavior. In this paper, a novel method, that can also be used for ordinary steel shear walls, has been suggested for side-sway evaluation of semi-supported steel shear walls undergoing a shear and overturning moment. The results are compared to that of analysis with commercial engineering software and showed relatively good compliance between the two.