Research Article
A Conceptual Design Approach of Coupled Shear Walls
Table 4
Rotation capacities for coupling beams controlled by shear as per ATC 40 [
16].
| Type of coupling beam | Conditions | Plastic Rotation Capacity (Radians) | | IO | LS | CP |
| Conventional longitudinal reinforcement with conforming transverse reinforcement
| 3 | 0.006 | 0.012 | 0.015 | 6 | 0.004 | 0.008 | 0.010 | Conventional longitudinal reinforcement with non-conforming transverse reinforcement | 3 | 0.006 | 0.008 | 0.010 | 6 | 0.004 | 0.006 | 0.007 |
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