ABSTRACT
Steel Plate shear walls (SPSWs) utilize inelasticity properties of the web plate to reinforce and protect the main members of the structures from fatal fracture phenomena against lateral forces. In this study, slotted shear panels with various layouts of butterfly-shaped links, which able to control out-of-plane deformations, by concentrating the majority of structural dam-age into the specific internal link elements, are investigated. To evaluate the structural behavior of proposed slotted shear panel, 54 computational models have been considered and analyzed according to previous calibration of the numerical model. The results prove that critical factors of butterfly-shaped links such as slenderness and number of links can improve the seismic performance of the proposed slotted shear panel subjected to shear loads.
