ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: This paper describes part of the research work performed by the authors for the Co-ordinate Research Project promoted by the International Agency for the Atomic Energy (IAEA) and entitled "Safety Significance of Near Field Earthquakes". The work focused on the structural modelling of one of the two reinforced concrete (RIC) shear walls tested for the CAMUS Benchmark (Combescure, 2002), with the aim of studying the wall at different levels of refinement: the micro-scale of finite element method (FE), the meso-scale of the fibre model and the macro-scale of the beam phenomenological model. In the following the procedures adopted and the results obtained with the micro-and meso-scale, FE and fibre model, will be described.
