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 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING TRANSACTIONS  
 

VOL. 59, 2017 

A publication of 

 
The Italian Association 

of Chemical Engineering 
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Guest Editors: Zhuo Yang, Junjie Ba, Jing Pan 
Copyright © 2017, AIDIC Servizi S.r.l. 
ISBN 978-88-95608- 49-5; ISSN 2283-9216 

Analysis of Shear Wall Structure with One-way and Small 
Wall 

Gao Hexiang 

Architecture Engineering Department, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China 
gaohexiang@126.com 

The X-direction frame, which is composed of Y-shear wall and floor, is involved in the anti-side and floor of the 
X-way shear wall structure by the simplified model. It should be designed and strengthened as a bending 
member in the anti-side frame system. In this paper, the internal force of the floor design and the conventional 
design is compared with that of the conventional design. The floor is only considered in the vertical structure in 
combination with the performance target. In addition, the relationship between the shear rate of the outer wall 
or the shear wall and the actual model can be verified with the results of the simplified model analysis 

1. Introduction 
Based on the concept of seismic design, shear wall and frame - shear wall structure should be arranged in 
both directions shear wall, which should be the direction of two main axis of the lateral stiffness (Zhu and Tan, 
2011; Matsusaka and Yasuda, 2017). Due to the need of ventilation and lighting, some residential buildings 
are arranged in the north-south direction of the shear wall, which resulting in the east and west shear wall is 
less. Thus, the wall is shorter or even completely degraded into the end column, the structure of the two 
directions has significant different characteristics (Kui, 2013).  
Engineering experience shows that the direction of the structure of such a small wall tend to have a 
considerable lateral stiffness, and then to meet the norms of the deformation limit. However, the direction of 
the wall structure of the overall stiffness is how the formation of horizontal force to pass (Miao et al., 2012). 
And whether there is a conventional design cannot envelope the insecurity, which is the urgent need to be 
studied and solved. 
The shear wall is mainly responsible for the vertical force and the level of horizontal shear, which are the key 
components of the structure (Qiao et al., 2006). At present, the commonly designed software only takes into 
account the stiffness of the shear wall, but does not check the outer bearing capacity, while only the internal 
bearing capacity is reinforced and checked. The conventional two-way evenly arranged shear wall structure is 
small with wall surface force, and the design does not consider that the conventional design can envelop the 
unfavourable factors, which will not affect the structural safety (Loo et al., 2015).  
Due to the direction and the layout of the in-plane shear force single-direction wall structure, the other side 
effect of the shear wall surface cannot be ignored, such as according to the general structure of the shear 
wall, thus wall structure design may have greater security risks. Standard layer plane and build number map 
can be seen in Figure 1. 
In general, the floor bears and transmits vertical loads, while coordinating the deformation of the vertical 
members and distributing the seismic action. Conventional structure level load is small under the floor of the 
outside of the bending effect (Dejoan and Leschziner, 2006). However, the contribution of the uniaxial wall 
structure to the shear wall in the "weak axis direction" is relatively small (Adebar and Mahmoodi, 2014).  
The anti-side effect of the outer shear wall and the floor may not be overlooked, and its damage may affect the 
safety of the structure. Combined with simplified cases and practical engineering cases, this paper will focus 
on single-way low-wall structure of the floor stress and seismic design problems. 

                               
 
 

 

 
   

                                                  
DOI: 10.3303/CET1759076

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Please cite this article as: Gao Hexiang, 2017, Analysis of shear wall structure with one-way and small wall, Chemical Engineering 
Transactions, 59, 451-456  DOI:10.3303/CET1759076   

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Figure 1: Standard layer plane and build number map 

2. Simplified model 
2.1 Basic information 

The X-ray length is 42m, the length of Y is 15m, and the number and length of the structure X-shear wall are 
much less than that of Y-direction (The direction of the wall are X-direction). The use of ETABS can establish 
the analysis model, the shear wall and floor using shell unit, the floor by finite element way guide, and beam 
rod unit (Zander et al., 2013). Fortified intensity of 7 degrees (0.1g), the characteristic period of 0.35, the basic 
HE0.75kpa, floor additional load and live load of 2.0kpa, thickness 100mm, 1F ~ 10F wall concrete grade C40, 
11F-32F for the C30, and beam , board concrete are C30, component size is detailed in Table 1. 

Table 1: Component size table 

Component name Section height (mm) Section width (mm) 
Wy1~Wy4 300\250\200 6000 
Wx1-1~Wx1-4 300\250 600 
Wx2-1~Wx2-2 300\250 2300 
L1/L2/L3 500\500\600 250 

2.2 Force characteristics 

The overall calculation results of the simplified model are given, and the displacement curves of each layer are 
shown in Figure 2. 

 

Figure 2: The displacement curve of each layer under earthquake 

The deformation curve of Figure 2 shows the "curved shape" characteristic of the Y-shear wall structure, the 
X-direction of the frame-shear wall structure and the shape of the shear wall structure (Namgung et al., 2011). 

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It can be seen from Table 2 that although the X- In order can explain the reasons for the formation of X-
direction stiffness, and a 6m long shear wall (300mm thick) is extracted from the whole model (Park and Ang, 
1985). In this paper, a column with a rod spacing of 6m (beam 250mmx500mm, column 300mmx600mm), is 
used to establish a layer, 8 layer, 16 layer and 32 layers of the plane anti-side structure. In addition, the 
application of 100kN level nine vertex lateral displacement on the top has the results in Table 2. 

Table 2: Comparison of lateral displacement of plane structure 

Floor number Roof displacement Frame top displacement Frame/wall 
1 0.05 3.56 79.4 
8 4.43 55.5 13.2 
16 33.6 154.7 5.3 
32 234.5 568.3 3.2 

 
It can be seen from Table 2 that the lateral displacement of the frame and the vertex of the wall are getting 
closer and closer with the increase of floors (Wei et al., 2012). This is because the lower shear wall is useful 
for the shear deformation, when it reached a certain height, the bending deformation is more obvious, and 
then the shear stiffness advantage of the shear wall is relatively weakened (Schanderl and Manhart, 2016). 
Extended to the overall structure, X is set to as long as you have enough plane length or as long as there are 
enough "lattice" frame unit, and then weaker force direction can seemingly shape the side stiffness. 

 

Figure 3: Shear rate 

Figure 3 shows that the bottom X to the long wall shear force has the sharing rate of 77.3%, X to short wall 
limbs 8.7%, Y to outside the wall is near 14%. The sharing rate of the long wall gradually decreases, and the 
"short wall" share increases gradually with the increase of the floor, which is consistent with the characteristics 
of the frame-shear wall structure. And the share rate outside the wall fluctuations along the floor smaller, 
which is basically between 12% and 16%. It is clear that the structure of the X-way anti-side system consists 
of the following three parts: 1) long wall limbs, 2) short walls and floor beams constitute the frame, 3) shear 
wall and floor composed of weak frame. In the case of weak sight, the size of the contribution of the wall is 
outside the shear wall. 
In the weak frame composed of the shear wall and the floor, the flexural rigidity of the floor and the influence 
of the bending stiffness on the self-vibration period of the structure are 3.57% and 11%, respectively. In the 
actual project for the simplified calculation, using the membrane unit to simulate the impact on the overall 
structure of the target may be small, and the floor bearing capacity may cause significant impact, thus the floor 
design only considers the vertical load bending moment, while it do not consider horizontal bending of the floor 
under the floor. In addition, the one-way low wall structure of the floor may bring insecurity. 

3. Floor stress analysis 
3.1 The stress analysis of the floor under the action of X direction with small earthquakes: 

In order to examine the normal stress in the middle of the floor, the stress difference of the upper and lower 
surfaces, which is caused by the bending of the floor, should be eliminated, and the shell element with the 

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outward bending stiffness is modeled (Zander et al., 2013). The stress floor of typical floor under X - shaped 
earthquake can be seen in Figure 4. 
 

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Figure 4: The stress floor of typical floor under X - shaped earthquake 

Figure 4 shows that the tensile stress of the floor is small under the action of X-direction, and the tensile stress 
of the left and right ends of the plane is relatively large at 0.05MPa, which is much lower than the concrete 
tensile strength of 1.43MPa. The maximum shear stress of the same floor is about 0.04MPa, which is much 
smaller than the floor shear bearing capacity. The impact of the floor on the bending capacity can be ignored 
according to pure bending components design. 

3.2 The distribution law of bending moment along the floor 

In order to quantitatively grasp the relative size of the bending moment and the distribution along the floor, the 
bending moment and the bending moment per millimeter are given respectively in the following Figure 5, while 
they are under the vertical load and the earthquake, 

 

Figure 5: Typical Curve of Layers 

Vertical load under the floor bearing design is about between 6.5kN.m/m~7.5kN.m/m, when bending along the 
floor of the basic uniform distribution. In the small earthquakes, B1 and B2 single bearing moments are close 
to each other, which are shown as the distribution pattern of small fish in the middle, low and high floor of the 
middle area with a maximum of 2.4 kN.m/m. And 35% of the design bending moment is under the load. While 
under the vertical load, the design bending moment is more uniform about 3.9kN.m/m. 

3.3 Board seismic design and conventional design comparison 

Due to the difference between the load of the small earthquake and the mid-earthquake, the coefficient of the 
initial material and the adjustment coefficient of the seismic bearing capacity are considered to be translated 
into the reinforcement area by the design force. The ratio of the reinforcement of the B1 and B2 is calculated 
to the reinforcement under the internal force of the X with the small and medium seismic forces, and then the 
ratio of the reinforcement to the reinforcement is calculated. In addition, we should also consider that the effect 
of the reinforcement is in the cross-stitch. The internal force distribution of the frame beam is similar to that in 
the frame-shear structure. And the internal force of the slab is also seen as a small distribution pattern of the 
large and low areas. The negative tendons of the middle and lower floors are more than conventional design 
reinforcement. Besides, B2 board is more serious than the B1 board. For example, small earthquake 11 to 21 
layers of reinforcement has an average of 1.1 times, while that of the average earthquake is 1.55 times. The 

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conventional design of the bottom bar can be enveloped small into the bearing, and the B1 and B2 support 
plate bottom reinforcement under the earthquake. The details of floor seismic design performance objectives 
can be seen in Table 3. 

Table 3: Floor seismic design performance objectives 

Earthquake intensity Performance standards Specific description 
Small 1 No damage 
Middle 4 Allows bending or partial bending 
High 5 Allows bending, does not collapse 

 
As shown in Figure 6, the ratio of negative beams to conventional design ratio is given. The shear rate of the 
Y-shear wall is 96.73%, while the shear rate of the outer wall of the X-wall (including the short wall) is 3.27%, 
which is obviously smaller than the shear rate of the Y-direction shear wall under the X-way earthquake. 
Therefore, the bending moment of the slab bearing should be small, and the bearing of the B3 north side 
bearing with relatively large confinement in Figure 6. The bending moment of the typical floor board represents 
the stress of the floor of a shear wall structure, and it is compared with the bending moment of the wall in the 
direction of the wall. 

 

Figure 6: The Ratio of Negative Beams to Conventional Design Ratio 

It shows that under the action of the earthquake, the bending moment of the slab bearing on the conventional 
shear wall structure is much smaller than that of the wall bearing on the wall structure, which is about 10% of 
the wall direction. And the conventional shear wall structure of the floor bearing small earthquake is with 
interaction about 1.2D+1.4L combination, and the average earthquake is about 0.84 times, small, medium 
shock while the floor will not yield. 

4. Conclusion 
Single-sided wall structure of the anti-side system has the following three parts: long wall limbs, short wall 
limbs and floor beams formed by the framework of the external force of the composition weak frame. The 
bearing capacity of the floor bearing has basically proportional relationship with the shear force of the shear 
wall as the bearing. When the sharing rate reaches a certain degree, the bearing capacity of the floor may not 
be satisfied under the earthquake. Thus the design should be based on the floor under the action of the 
earthquake bending calculation. The bending resistance of the floor is recommended to be set for small 
seismic elasticity. The mid-seismic allows bending yield or partial bending yield. Under the earthquake, the 
plastic deformation is controlled to prevent falling. Because it is not allowed to bend the yield control, the 
reinforcement will have a greater degree of increase. In the earthquake, more floor bearing will bend yield and 
result in increasing bending moment, which can be low appropriate amplification in the floor plate tendons of 
the low floor, and the bottom bar should be extended into the bearing by the tensile reinforcement. With the 
architectural requirements, not only the actual structure characteristics, the typical components and the 
limitations of the selection should be considered, but also the designer should combine the specific 
circumstances of the building floor seismic design. 

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