| Abstract: | The seismic performance of precast reinforced concrete(RC) coupled shear walls is significantly influenced by coupling beams and the beam-to-wall joints during large deformations into plastic ranges.This study investigated the use of engineered cementitious composite(ECC) in the cast-in-place beam-to-wall joints and the upper regions of the composite coupling beams as an innovative method to improve the seismic performance of precast RC coupled shear walls.Two 1/2-scale precast coupled shear walls were tested under reversed cyclic loading and seismic behavior in terms of failure characteristic,mechanical characteristic value,load-displacement hysteresis curves,load-displacement envelope relationship,stiffness degradation,ductility and energy dissipation capacity were evaluated.Research results show that the substitution of concrete with ECC in the critical cast-in-place regions proved to be an effective method to improve the seismic performance of the two-story spatial of precast RC coupled shear walls. |
