Stiffness-Displacement Correlation from the RC Shear Wall Tests of the SAFE Program: Derivation of a Capacity Line Model

Figure 26

Comparison of the identified characteristic crack widths for all the walls as a function of reinforcement and normal load. Crack width (, (a)) and Crack width (, (b)) are, respectively, the characteristic values at a reference initial stiffness and at a reference near-collapse stiffness.

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