Academic Perspective Procedia, Bursa, Türkiye, 21 - 23 Ekim 2022, cilt.5, sa.3, ss.89-98
The reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls are widely used to serve as the primary lateral load-resisting
member in the high-rise buildings. An experimental investigation of the mechanical behaviour of hybrid
fibre (carbon and steel) reinforced self-compacting concrete (HFRSCC) shear walls under pure torsion
moment is presented in this paper. The nine HFRSCC shear walls with the same longitudinal
reinforcement ratio were tested under pure torsion moment and no axial load. The effect of hybrid fibre
ratio and horizontal reinforcement amount and aspect ratio on the failure characteristics, torsional
behaviour, energy dissipation capacity, ductility of shear walls was studied. Results indicate that both
hybrid and horizontal reinforcement ratio are increased the ultimate torsional moment capacity and angle
of rotation and that the hybrid fibre ratio is the key parameter that determines the failure mode of the
HFRSCC shear walls. Torsional moment capacity increased, when the hybrid fiber ratio rose up from
0% to 1.0% and then 1.5%. However, this increase was larger in case of increasing the hybrid fiber ratio
from 0% to 1.0%. Increasing the hybrid fiber ratio from 1.0% to 1.5% did not result in a performance
increase as in the first case.