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coupled wall structure
wall frame structures
framed tube structures
tube in tube structures
bundled tube structures
braced tube structures
A coupled wall structures is a very common form of shear
wall structure with its own special problems of analysis and
design
It consists of two or more shear walls in the same plane or
almost the same plane connected at the floor levels by
beams or stiff slabs
This results in a horizontal stiffness very much greater than
if the walls acted as a set of separate uncoupled cantilevers
Coupled walls occur often in residential construction where
lateral load resistant cross walls
which separate the apartments consists of shear wall
between
Which there are corridor or window openings
When shear walls are combined with rigid frames the
walls which tend to deflect in a flexural configuration
and frames
Which tend to deflect in a shear mode are constrained
to adopt a common deflected shape by the horizontal
rigidity of the girders and slabs
The interacting wall frame combination is appropriate
for buildings in the 40 – 60 story range well beyond
that of rigid frames or shear walls alone
The lateral resistance of framed tube structures is
provided by very stiff moment – resistant frames
When lateral loading acts the perimeter,
frames aligned in the direction of loading act as a webs
of the massive tube cantilever and those normal to the
direction of the loading act as the flanges
The close spacing of the columns throughout the height
of the structure is usually unacceptable at the entrance
level
The columns are merged or terminated on a transfer
beam, a few storeys above the base so that only a few
larger more widely spaced columns continue to the
base
The tube is suitable for both steel and reinforced
concrete construction and has been used for building
range from 40 to more than 100 storeys