Special perforated steel plate shear walls with reduced beam section anchor beams. II: Analysis and design recommendations

This paper presents a comparison of analytical and experimental results from an investigation of specially detailed ductile perforated steel plate shear walls (SPSWs). These SPSWs had low yield strength steel infill panels, anchor beams with reduced beam sections connections, and were specially detailed to accommodate utility passage through the wall while remaining ductile. Finite-element models of full SPSWs and subelement strips are developed using the finite element software package ABAQUS/Standard to facilitate a comparison with experimental results and to investigate the influence of localized distribution of panel stress and strain between perforations. Based on the analytical and experimental results, recommendations for the design of these special detailed perforated SPSWs are presented.