Research Article
A Conceptual Design Approach of Coupled Shear Walls
Table 5
Rotation capacities for coupling beams as per Galano and Vignoli [
17].
| Type of coupling beam | Aspect ratio | Rotation Capacity (Radians) | | |
| Conventional reinforcement | 1.5 | 0.051 | Diagonal reinforcement | 1.5 | 0.062 | Truss reinforcement | 1.5 | 0.084 |
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