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Seismic design of RC moment-resisting frames with concrete block infill walls considering local infill-frame interactions

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Concrete block infill walls, due to their high strength and stiffness, can significantly influence the seismic behavior of the frames. The infill walls can increase the overall lateral frame strength and can also induce local failures in the surrounding frames. In general, if local failure can be avoided, the presence of the infill walls can provide additional reserved strength that can be beneficial to the frames. For this reason, a new RC frame with infill walls could be designed as a bare frame without considering the increase in strength, but measures must be taken to prevent local failures due to the infill wall-frame interaction. However, this infill wall-frame interaction is very complex, and clear design strategies to prevent local failures are not normally given in design codes. For this reason, two full-scale intermediate RC moment-resisting frame specimens with infill concrete block walls were tested under a horizontal cyclic load to study the infill wall-frame interaction. Finite element analysis was carried out to evaluate the response particularly on the infill-frame interactions. Based on the results, a design strategy to eliminate local failure in the surrounding frame is suggested. The proposed method is based on local plastic mechanism analysis of the column considering the variation in the column shear demand and column shear capacity at different states of the response as the frame deforms. The shear demand depends on the magnitude and direction of the bearing force from the infill wall. The column is considered as a captive or slender column depending on the restraint from the infill wall, thereby affecting the shear capacity of the column. The proposed approach can be readily applied without radically changing common design practices and design codes.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Thailand Research Funds (RDG6130022) and the King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi’s Petchra Pra Jom Klao Ph.D. Scholarship to the first author.

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Wararuksajja, W., Srechai, J. & Leelataviwat, S. Seismic design of RC moment-resisting frames with concrete block infill walls considering local infill-frame interactions. Bull Earthquake Eng 18, 6445–6474 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-020-00942-9

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