A Conceptual Design Approach of Coupled Shear Walls

Table 10

Maximum rotations in radians.

Type of eeinforcement	𝐿𝑏/𝑑𝑏	Value as per (6)	Galano and Vignoli [17]	Englekirk [3]	ATC40 [16], FEMA 273 [14] and FEMA 356 [15]
Diagonal	<1.5	<0.03	0.062	0.04	0.03
Truss	1.5 to 4.0	0.03 to 0.08	0.084	0.06	—