By Dr. Graham H. Powell, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley
Introduction
In PERFORM, coupling beams for shear walls can be modeled using Frame elements or Wall elements. This note considers some of the modeling issues and suggests methods for modeling coupling beams.
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Deep coupling panels are most likely to be controlled by shear, rather than bending. Because of this they can be the simplest to model. Figure 1 shows models some possible models.
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Figure 1: Deep Coupling Panels
The following are some points to consider:
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