简介:Sandwichmasonrywallsarewidelyusedasenergy-savingpanelssincetheinterlayerbetweentheouterleavescanactasaninsulationlayer.Newtypesofsandwichwallsarecontinuallybeingintroducedinresearchandapplications,andduetotheiruniquebondpatterns,experimentalstudieshavebeenperformedtoinvestigatetheirmechanicalproperties,especiallywithregardtotheirseismicperformance.Inthisstudy,threenewtypesofsandwichmasonrywallhavebeendesigned,andcycliclateralloadingtestswerecarriedoutonfivespecimens.Theresultsshowedthatthespecimensfailedmainlyduetoslippagealongthebottomcracksorthedevelopmentofdiagonalcracks,andthefailurepatternswereconsiderablyinfluencedbytheaspectratio.Analysiswasundertakenontheseismicresponseofthenewwalls,whichincludedductility,stiffnessdegradationandenergydissipationcapacity,andnoobviousdifferencewasobservedbetweentheseismicperformanceofthenewwallsandtraditionalwalls.Comparisonsweremadebetweentheexperimentalresultsandthecalculatedresultsoftheshearcapacity.ItisconcludedthattheformulasinthetwoChinesecodes(GB50011andGB50003)aresuitableforthecalculationoftheshearcapacityforthenewtypesofwalls,andtheformulainGB50011tendstobemoreconservative.