Research Article
A Conceptual Design Approach of Coupled Shear Walls
Table 6
Rotation capacities for coupling beams as per Englekirk [
3].
| | Type of coupling beam | Aspect ratio | Rotation Capacity (Radians) | | |
| | Conventional reinforcement | 1.5 | 0.02 | | Diagonal reinforcement | 1.5 | 0.04 | | Truss reinforcement | 1.5 | 0.06 |
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