Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) are efficient lateral-force resisting systems with high stiffness, strength, and ductility performances as well as energy-absorption capacity. Proper design and detailing of the plate and frame components is crucial to ensure the favorable yielding and stability performances of such elements, desirable plate-frame yielding sequence as well as interaction, and consequently high performance of the overall system. This paper presents a study on the effects of yielding strength of plate and frame elements, plate thickness, and beam-to-column connections on the structural behavior and capacity of SPSWs. Numerous SPSW models with different yielding strength of plate and frame elements, plate thickness, and simple and rigid beam-to-column connections are designed and analyzed using finite element method. The ultimate capacities of the SPSW models are approximately obtained through the plastic analysis of the system. It is demonstrated in this study that a rigid beam-to-column connection can improve the strength performance of an SPSW system and that proper sizing of the frame components, especially columns, can increase the ultimate capacity by 5–35%. The effectiveness of the application of the column rigidity parameter, RCP, in the design of column components against buckling is also investigated. It is shown that RCP ≤1 can ensure the full development of web tension-field action as well as desirable plate-frame interaction, which can consequently contribute to the high performance of the SPSW system.

钢板剪力墙（SPSW）是高效的抗侧向力系统，具有高刚度，强度和延展性以及能量吸收能力。板和框架部件的正确设计和细节设计对于确保此类元件的良好屈服和稳定性性能，所需的板-框架屈服顺序以及相互作用以及因此整个系统的高性能至关重要。本文对板框框架构件的屈服强度，板厚度以及梁-柱连接对SPSW的结构行为和承载力的影响进行了研究。使用有限元方法设计和分析了具有不同板和框架构件屈服强度，板厚度以及简单而刚性的梁到柱连接的SPSW模型。SPSW模型的极限容量是通过系统的塑性分析近似得出的。这项研究表明，刚性的梁到柱连接可以改善SPSW系统的强度性能，并且框架构件（尤其是立柱）的适当尺寸可以使最终承载力提高5％至35％。柱刚度参数的应用效果，在设计抗弯屈的柱构件时，也研究了RCP。结果表明，RCP≤1可以确保幅面张力场作用的充分发展以及所需的板框相互作用，从而可以提高SPSW系统的高性能。