Study on the Improvement Effect of Rocking Wall Internal Force in Multiple Rocking Sections System and Analysis of Influencing Parameters

Using multiple rocking sections system can effectively reduce the internal force demand of the rocking wall itself while ensuring the improvement of structural deformation and seismic performance. This form also has the advantages of being easier to manufacture, transport, and install. In order to analyze the improvement effect of multiple rocking sections system on the internal force of the rocking wall, the paper derived a simplified calculation formula for the displacement of frame structure in multiple pinned rocking wall system and internal force of multiple pinned rocking wall by combining the characteristics of segmented rocking walls and different boundary conditions from rocking at base only system. And it further analyzed the influence of the rocking wall stiffness ratio and the number of rocking sections on the internal force of the rocking wall, which was compared with the corresponding situation of rocking at base only system. The research shows that the peak value and variation range of internal forces can be significantly reduced when setting multiple rocking sections over the height of rocking system in comparison to full slice rocking system. Under uniform distributed load, the distribution regularities of bending moment and shear force of each section of rocking wall in multiple rocking sections system is similar. Furthermore, the peak bending moment of the rocking wall in rocking at base only system is m2 times that of the rocking wall section in multiple rocking sections system, and the peak shear force of the rocking wall in rocking at base only system is m times that of the rocking wall section in multiple rocking sections system. However, when subjected to inverted triangle load, the bending moment and shear force of the upper rocking wall section are larger than those of the lower rocking wall section in multiple rocking sections system. The influence of stiffness ratio on rocking wall internal forces is obvious when the ratio varies in an appropriate scope of 1. 0~5. 0. When the stiffness ratio increases in this scope, the influence extent increases first and then decreases. When the stiffness ratio is not in this scope, whether too large or too small, the internal force of rocking wall is not sensitive to this parameter. At this point, the improvement effect of the rocking wall internal force by the stiffness ratio is not significant. The decreasing amplitude of rocking wall internal force decreases with the increase of the number of rocking sections, so when using multiple rocking sections system, the number of rocking sections should not be too large. In addition, the analysis also shows that the influence of the stiffness ratio and the number of rocking sections on the internal force of the rocking wall is relatively independent, and the influence effects are not coupled. © 2023 South China University of Technology. All rights reserved.