Research Article
Analyzing Parametric Sensitivity on the Cyclic Behavior of Steel
Shear Walls
Seyed Mohamad Seyed Kolbadi ,
1
Nemat Hassani,
2
Seyed Mahdi Seyed-Kolbadi,
3
and Masoud Mirtaheri
3
1
Department of Civil Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran
2
Department of Civil, Water & Environmental Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
3
Department of Civil Engineering, KN Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Correspondence should be addressed to Seyed Mohamad Seyed Kolbadi; s_seyyedkolbadi@sbu.ac.ir
Received 31 May 2021; Revised 1 July 2021; Accepted 30 October 2021; Published 28 November 2021
Academic Editor: Shan Gao
Copyright © 2021 Seyed Mohamad Seyed Kolbadi et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons
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As a destructive phenomenon in most parts of the world, earthquake has threatened the safety of structures and the lives of its
inhabitants and is considered as the main problem in the seismic vulnerability of buildings. Steel shear walls are regarded as one of
the newest structural systems resistant to lateral load in steel structures. e present study aimed to investigate the impact of
effective parameters on cyclic behavior by numerically modeling a steel shear wall and comparing it with laboratory results. e
results indicated the significant contribution of the thickness of steel shear sheet so that when the thickness changes to 25%, the
final response of the structure increased by approximately 20% and decreased by 15%.
1. Introduction
As a destructive phenomenon in most parts of the world,
earthquake has threatened the safety of structures and the
lives of its inhabitants; reducing the irreparable damage of
earthquakes has always been the ultimate goal of researchers
and scientists in earthquake engineering. e probability of
an earthquake based on the distribution of active faults in
Iran in Figure 1 indicates a permanent danger. Researchers
have introduced various earthquake-resistant lateral-bearing
systems over time. is process has continued from the
frames of building materials to introducing the structural
control systems. e steel shear wall system (Figure 2) is
considered as one of the new seismic systems, which has
been approved by the Canadian Steel Code since 1994 and
has been recognized by the US Steel Code since 2005. As a
destructive phenomenon in most parts of the world,
earthquake has threatened the safety of structures and the
lives of its inhabitants; reducing the irreparable damage of
earthquakes has always been the ultimate goal of researchers
and scientists in earthquake engineering. e probability of
an earthquake based on the distribution of active faults in
Iran in Figure 1 indicates a permanent danger. Various
earthquake-resistant lateral-bearing systems have been in-
troduced by researchers over time. is process has con-
tinued from the frames of building materials to introducing
the structural control systems. e steel shear wall system
(Figure 2) is considered as one of the new seismic systems
which has been approved by the Canadian Steel Code since
1994 and has been recognized by the US Steel Code since
2005.
During recent years, when the research on the seismic
performance of steel shear walls and their reliability is
increased, using these walls, especially in the United States
and Japan, has increased significantly [1]. e design
regulations have now begun to provide design criteria for
such walls due to the relatively comprehensive knowledge
of their behavior. e basis of the performance of this
structural system is based on using the performance of the
diagonal tensile field after buckling of steel sheets. e
simple implementation based only on existing technical
knowledge and without the need to acquire new skills
Hindawi
Shock and Vibration
Volume 2021, Article ID 3976793, 10 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/3976793