Numerical Analysis on the Effect of Vital Design Parameters on the Seismic Performance of Shear Walls with Horizontal Ring Connection

Prefabricated shear walls are currently widely applied in mid-to-high-rise structures. As a new type of structural form of assembled shear walls, the ring connection assembled concrete shear wall has clear mechanical mechanism, easy construction and better performance and other significant advantages, which are gradually being applied in actual engineering. However, few systematic studies are carried on this new type of shear wall structure, and a complete theoretical system for guiding the design could not be given, especially in terms of mechanical mechanism and seismic performance, more detailed research work is needed. This paper uses numerical simulation as the main method to study the influence of different design variables such as shear span ratio, buckle size, axial compression ratio on the mechanical properties of the connection area in shear wall and the overall seismic performance of the structure. In this way, the theoretical basis for further optimizing the structural performance of the shear wall connection with ring connection.