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Generalized solution for the static analysis of coupled shear walls three-field CTB beam-5

This document discusses a continuous model for the analytical solution of coupled shear walls, detailing its structure and methodology across several sections. It introduces the Three-field CTB beam continuous model, describes the derivation of equilibrium equations, and presents a modified transfer matrix method to enhance computational efficiency. The document concludes with validation of the model through numerical applications and outlines future research directions.

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Generalized solution for the static analysis of coupled shear walls three-field CTB beam-5

This document discusses a continuous model for the analytical solution of coupled shear walls, detailing its structure and methodology across several sections. It introduces the Three-field CTB beam continuous model, describes the derivation of equilibrium equations, and presents a modified transfer matrix method to enhance computational efficiency. The document concludes with validation of the model through numerical applications and outlines future research directions.

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for spatial discretization. The order of the global transfer matrix matches the order of the dif­
ferential equation governing its behavior, and the methods offer simple programming with min­
imal computational memory requirements.
The structure of this document is as follows: Section 1 provides a brief overview of the
literature on the approximate analysis of coupled shear walls. Section 2 presents a detailed
description of the Three-field CTB beam continuous model, detailing the kinematic fields
and the simplifications, limitations, and assumptions. Section 3 presents in detail the calcula­
tion of the equivalent stiffnesses of the continuous model. Section 4 presents the derivation
of the equilibrium equations, constitutive laws, and boundary conditions using a variational
approach by applying the Hamilton principle to the relevant Lagrangian function. Section 5
presents a detailed closed-form analytical solution for shear walls subjected to general lateral
load profiles that can be expressed analytically. Section 6 introduces a modification to the
transfer matrix method, which directly uses the transfer matrix derived in Section 5. This
approach eliminates the need to compute the inverse of the zero-transfer matrix, significantly
reducing the computational cost of the classical method. Section 7 validates the continuous
model and the proposed solution method through numerical applications and an exhaustive
parametric analysis. Finally, Section 8 describes the general conclusions and future research
directions.

2. Description of the continuous model: three-field CTB beam


The continuous model used in this paper to propose the closed-form analytical solution for the
problem of generalized static analysis of coupled shear walls is the one proposed by Capsoni and
Faridani (2016) (Fig. 1a). The main hypothesis of the continuous method is the replacement of
the discrete connecting beams by an equivalent continuous core distributed along its height
(Fig. 1b) characterized by its elastic moduli Eeq ¼ 0 and the equivalent shear modulus in the con­
tinuous core Geq (Capsoni and Faridani 2016). The effect of the connecting beams is accounted
for by shearing the equivalent continuous core at its point of contraflexure and replacing its effect
by a uniformly distributed shear flow along its height (Fig. 1c).
To consider the effect of flexural and shear stiffness, the connecting beams are modeled as
Timoshenko beams. Capuani, Merli, and Savoia (1994) equated the potential energy of the set of

Figure 1. Modeling of the coupled shear wall. a) Coupled shear wall, (b) equivalent continuous model and (c) force balance and
consistent kinematic fields (Capsoni and Faridani 2016).

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