Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1-7 (2026)
HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOR OF ORTHOGONAL-INSTALLED DOUBLE
CORRUGATED STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALL
Yan-Sheng Song 1, Zhuo-Yuan Jiang 1, *, Yu-Rong Dai 2 and Chun-Gang Wang 1
1 School of Civil Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang 110168, China
2 China Construction Fourth Bureau First construction Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510000, China
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Received: 30 December 2024; Revised: 3 June 2025; Accepted: 4 June 2025
DOI:10.18057/IJASC.2026.22.1.1
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ABSTRACT
To enhance the weak-axis performance of double corrugated steel plate shear walls (DCSPSWs), this study introduces an innovative orthogonal-installed double corrugated steel plate shear wall (OD-CSPSW). The proposed system comprises two orthogonally interlocked corrugated plates connected via through-bolts and integrated into a steel frame using fish-tail plate connections. A large-scale general-purpose finite element (FE) software, ABAQUS 6.14, was employed. Following validation against experimental benchmarks, 15 OD-CSPSW models were analyzed, and the effects of the corrugation angle and arrangement method on the hysteretic behavior of OD-CSPSWs were investigated. Additionally, two specimens of the co-directional DCSPSWs were designed as the control group. The results indicate that the OD-CSPSW demonstrates better hysteretic behavior compared to the co-directional DCSPSW. Specifically, the OD-CSPSW with a corrugation angle of 45° demonstrates the best overall stiffness and resistance to out-of-plane buckling, while also possessing a high energy dissipation capacity. According to the coverage method, the shear wall exhibits the highest initial stiffness when fully coverage, though its load-bearing capacity degrades more rapidly. For non-fully coverage, the energy dissipation capability of a vertically-centered shear wall outperforms a horizontally-centered one. It is recommended that when designing the OD-CSPSW, the corrugation angle should be set to 45° with full coverage, and if non-fully coverage is necessary, a vertically-centered arrangement should be selected.
KEYWORDS
Double steel corrugated plate wall, Wave angles, Coverage, Hysteretic behavior, FE analysis
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