Owners, designers and contractors are always looking for ways to build smarter and better. A new method for strengthening concrete shear walls has the potential not only to remove significant ...

Advances in the design and evaluation of cold-formed steel (CFS) shear walls have significantly enhanced the seismic resilience of modern structures. These walls, which integrate thin-gauge steel ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, Steel-concrete composite shear wall, Infill concrete, Steel faceplates, Cyclic test, Bolted-baseplate, connection, In-plane loading ...