Effect of Deformed and Plain Rebars on the Behavior of Lightly Reinforced Boundary Elements
In recent earthquakes common failure modes of lightly reinforced shear walls includes rebar fracture and out of plane buckling of boundary elements.In Pucks latest edition of ACI 318 and also latest amendment of NZS 3101-2006 to avoid rebar fracture in boundary elements, minimum longitudinal reinforcement ratio is increased.This experimental study