Capacity Design of Nominally Ductile Shear Wall Systems

By Structural Engineering Society NZ (SESOC) · 2006

In regions of lower seismicity within New Zealand, concrete structures are often kept economic by being designed as nominally ductile, thereby avoiding the additional detailing requirements of NZS 3101:2006 (SNZ) for ductile structures. However, NZS 1170.5:2004 (SNZ) and NZS 3101:2006 still have resiliency (i.e.