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Abstract
In many cases, high-rise building structures are designed as a framed structure with shear walls that can effectively resist horizontal
forces. Many of the high-rise apartment buildings recently constructed in the Asian region employ the box system that consists only of
reinforced concrete walls and slabs as the structural system. In most of these structures, a shear wall may have one or more openings
for functional reasons. It is necessary to use a refined finite element model for an accurate analysis of a shear wall with openings. But it
would take a significant amount of computational time and memory if the entire building structure were subdivided into a finer mesh. Thus
an efficient method that can be used for the analysis of a high-rise building structure with shear walls regardless of the number, size and
location of openings in the wall is proposed in this study. The proposed method uses super elements, substructures and fictitious beams.
Static and dynamic analyses of example structures with various types of opening were performed to verify the efficiency and accuracy of the
proposed method. It was confirmed that the proposed method can provide results with outstanding accuracy requiring significantly reduced
computational time and memory.
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Keywords: Shear wall with openings; Super elements; Substructuring technique; Matrix condensation; Stiff fictitious beam
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(a) Fine mesh model. (b) Super element w/o (c) Super element
fictitious beams. w/ fictitious beams.
(a) Refined mesh. (b) Super element w/o (c) Super element The equilibrium equation for the refined mesh model can
fictitious beam. w/ fictitious beam. be rearranged as shown in Eq. (1) by separating the active
Fig. 5. Deformed shape of a shear wall structure with door type openings.
DOFs for the corners of shear walls from the inactive DOFs
for the boundary and inner area of shear walls and floor slab
as follows:
method. Therefore, the procedure of the use of a fictitious
S S Di
beam is theoretically explained in this section. Three types SD = ii ia
Sai Saa Da
of modeling methods are used to verify the efficiency of the
proposed method, as shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 6(a) represents the S(S) S(S) S(W )
S(W )
Di Ai
refined mesh model that is assumed to be the most accurate. = ii
(S) (S) +
ia ii
(W )
ia
(W ) = (1)
Sai Saa Sai Saa D a A a
Each shear wall in a story can be modeled with a single
element, as shown in Fig. 6(b), for more efficient analysis. where subscripts a and i are assigned to the DOFs for the
The proposed model in this study is illustrated in Fig. 6(c). active and inactive nodes respectively, the matrix S(S) is the
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stiffness matrix for a floor slab, and S(W ) is the stiffness where the matrix HHaiii OI makes the stiffness matrix into an
matrix for a shear wall. upper triangular matrix. Eq. (10) can be represented as an
A Gaussian elimination process can be employed to upper triangular stiffness matrix by the Gaussian elimination
condense Eq. (1) into the equation consisting of only active process and Sia can be given as Eq. (12):
DOFs at corner nodes of the slab and wall.
GSD = GA (2) Hii S(S)
ii H S (S)
ii ia Di
(S) (S) (W A)
O Hai Sia + Saa + Saa D a
where the matrix G makes the stiffness matrix S into an
upper triangular matrix. If the equation is represented by Hii Ai
= (11)
separating the active and inactive DOFs, then Hai Ai + Aa
(S) (S)
Gii O Sii Sia Di Gii O Ai Sia = −Sii Hai
T
. (12)
= . (3)
Gai I Sai Saa Da Gai I Aa
After expansion of second row of Eq. (11), substitution of
If Eq. (3) is developed, the stiffness matrix is transformed Eq. (10) into that expanded equation leads to Eq. (13).
to an upper triangular matrix and Sia can be represented as
(S)
follows: (−Hai Sii Hai
T
+ S(S) (W A)
aa + Saa )Da = Hai Ai + Aa . (13)
Gii Sii Gii Sia Di It can be easily noticed that the stiffness in Eq. (13) is
Gai Sii + Sai Gai Sia + Saa Da different from that of the equilibrium equation constituted
Gii Sii Gii Sia Di by the refined mesh model (Eq. (8)). To remove this
=
O Gai Sia + Saa Da difference, a fictitious beam is employed in this study.
From the proposed method using a fictitious stiff beam, the
Gii Ai
= (4) equilibrium equation can be represented as follows:
Gai Ai + Aa
Sia = −Sii Gai
T
. (5) S(S) S (S)
S(B)
S(B)
O O Di
(S) + (B) + O S(W A)
ii ia ii ia
The second row of Eq. (4) can be expanded as follows: S(S)
ai S aa S(B)
ai Saa aa D a
(Gai Sia + Saa )Da = Gai Ai + Aa . Ai
(6) = (14)
Aa
Substitution of Eq. (5) into Eq. (6) leads to the following
result: where S(B) denotes the stiffness matrix of the fictitious
beam. A Gaussian elimination process was used to make the
(−Gai Sii Gai
T
+ Saa )Da = Gai Ai + Aa . (7)
equilibrium equation consist of only active DOFs at common
This equation can be represented by using the slab stiffness nodes of the slab and wall as follows:
matrix (S(S)) and the shear wall stiffness matrix (S(W )) as B) (S B)
follows: Jii O S(S S O O
B) + O S(W A)
ii ia
(S B)
(S) (W ) Jai I Sai S(S
+ S(S) (W ) aa aa
(−Gai Sii Gai
T
− Gai Sii Gai
T
aa + Saa )Da
= Gai Ai + Aa . O O Di J O Ai
(8) − = ii (15)
O S(G)
aa D a J ai I Aa
On the other hand, modeling a shear wall using a single
element and joining a shear wall to a slab only at corner where S(S B) = S(S) + S(B) and S(G) aa represents the stiffness
nodes leads to the following equilibrium equation: matrix of the beam that is to be subtracted.
From the Gaussian elimination process, Eq. (15) can be
(S) (S)
Sii Sia O O Di Ai (S B)
(S) + O S(W A) =
(S) (9) transformed into an upper triangular matrix and Sia can be
Sai Saa aa D a A a
represented as Eq. (17).
where the matrix S(W A)
Jii S(S (S B)
aa is the stiffness matrix for shear walls B)
ii J ii Sia Di
that is modeled by a single element. It is different from (S B) (S B) (W A) (G)
S(W ) O Jai Sia + Saa + Saa − Saa D a
aa , which is the stiffness matrix for active DOFs of shear
walls modeled with a refined mesh. In order to make the Jii Ai
= (16)
equilibrium equation consist of only active DOFs at common Jai Ai + Aa
nodes of the slab and wall, a Gaussian elimination process
S(S
ia
B)
= −S(S
ii
B) T
Jai . (17)
can be employed as follows:
Substitution of Eq. (17) into the second row of expanded
Hii O S(S) S (S)
O O Di
(S) + O S(W A)
ii ia Eq. (16) gives:
Hai I S(S)
ai S aa aa D a
(−Jai Sii
(S B) T
+ S(S (W A)
− S(G)
aa + Saa aa )Da
B)
Hii O Ai Jai
= (10) = Jai Ai + Aa . (18)
Hai I Aa
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Fig. 11. Use of fictitious beams for shear wall A in Fig. 9(b).
(c) Subtract fictitious (d) Super element.
beams.
Fig. 14. Use of fictitious beams for shear wall D in Fig. 9(b).
Fig. 12. Use of fictitious beams for shear wall B in Fig. 9(b).
Fig. 15. Use of fictitious beams for shear wall E in Fig. 9(b).
elements and the mesh size are not restricted. Thus, it would
be very efficient to use super elements in modeling as well
as in the analysis of a building structure.
Static analysis of the 5-story example structure shown in
Fig. 9 was performed to verify the accuracy of the proposed (e) Model E.
method using five types of models, as shown in Fig. 17.
Fig. 17. Name of analytical models.
Model A is a fine mesh model which is assumed to provide
the most accurate results. Models B and C replace the link
beam above the opening by an equivalent stiff beam, as
shown in Fig. 17(b) and (c). The rigid diaphragm assumption
is applied to each floor in model C and the flexural stiffness
of the floor is ignored. Model D employs the super element
proposed in this study generated from a fine mesh model
while model E is derived from a coarse mesh model, as
shown in Fig. 17(d) and (e).
The lateral displacements of each model subjected to
a lateral load of 10 000 kg at roof level in the transverse
direction are compared in Fig. 18. In the case of models
B and C, the lateral displacements were significantly
larger than those of model A. This overestimation in
displacements was introduced by the overestimation of the
shear deformation in the upper part of the shear wall at both
sides of the opening because the lintel is modeled by an
equivalent beam element. Since the flexural stiffness of the
Fig. 18. Lateral displacement of example structure.
floor slab was ignored in model C, the lateral displacements
were even larger than those of model B. Model D could
provide lateral displacements very close to those of model boundary of super elements by the effect of fictitious beams.
A, indicating that the compatibility is well enforced at the Since the lateral stiffness of a coarse mesh model is usually
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4.2. Modeling of floor slabs by using substructures Fig. 19. Modeling process of shear walls by using a substructure.
(b) Division of floor slab. 5.1. A framed structure with a shear wall core
Table 1
Comparison of DOFs and computational time required for analysis
Fig. 23. Seismic analysis results of the example structure from the models
A, C and D.
Fig. 25. Seismic analysis results of the example structure from the models
A, C and D.
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