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Summary: "Seismic Behavior and Design of Steel Shear Walls", A. Astaneh-Asl, SEAONC Seminar, November 2001, San Francisco. of 181
Seismic Behavior and Design of Steel Shear Walls
By
Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, Ph.D., P.E., Professor
Department of Civil and Env. Engineering
781 Davis Hall, University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1710
Phone: (510) 642-4528,
Home office Phone and Fax: (925) 946-0903
Cell Phone for Urgent Calls: (925) 699-3902
e-mail: , Astaneh@ce.berkeley.edu., Web Site: www.ce.berkeley.edu/~astaneh
Introduction
Steel plate shear wall systems have been used in recent years in highly seismic areas to
resist lateral loads. Figure 1 shows two basic types of steel shear walls; unstiffened and stiffened
with or without openings. Unstiffened shear walls have been very popular in North American
applications while in Japan almost all steel shear walls used in recent years have been stiffened.
Figure 1. Stiffened and Unstiffened Steel Shear Walls
3. Stiffened Steel Shear
Wall With Opening
4. Stiffened Steel Shear
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