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Effective Stiffness of Squat Structural Walls Bing Li1 and Weizheng Xiang2 Abstract: Reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls are the primary lateral-load carrying elements in many structures designed to resist earthquakes. A review of the technical literature shows considerable uncertainty with regards to the effective stiffness of these structures when subjected to seismic excitations, which many design practices currently deal with by employing a stiffness reduction factor. In an attempt to obtain additional information regarding the stiffness of these structures, an analytical approach, combining the flexure and shear components of deformation, is proposed to evaluate the effective stiffness of the RC walls tested. Based on this proposed analytical approach, a comprehensive parametric study comprising 180 combinations was carried out and a simple equation for assessing effective stiffness of RC squat structural walls then proposed, on the basis of these parametric case studies. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000386. © 2011 American Society of Civil Engineers. CE Database subject headings: Walls; Stiffness; Reinforced concrete; Load bearing capacity; Earthquake resistant structures. Author keywords: RC squat structural walls; Stiffness characteristic; Initial stiffness. Introduction on the axial load and reinforcement content. Thus, the recommen- dations in the NZS 3101 design code (NZS 1995) for stiffness The past 15 years have seen major developments in seismic design estimation are oversimplified and may lead to an inaccurate assess- provisions, with a paradigm shift from a force-based approach to a ment of the wall sti