Database of Flanged Reinforced Concrete Squat Walls

Flanged reinforced concrete (RC) squat walls are widely used in conventional buildings and nuclear facilities, due to their capabilities of meeting certain architecture demands and providing significant lateral strength and stiffness in both principle directions. Despites their popularities and advantages, understanding for these walls are still limited, due to the complexities brought by the non-rectangular cross-section shaped and the relatively small shear span ratio. Moreover, current building codes are mainly developed for rectangular slender walls, which exhibit significant scatters in predicting peak shear strength of effective stiffness to these walls. To facilitate future investigations, a database containing comprehensive information about 152 flanged RC squat walls is presented in this project. Researchers are encouraged to continuously upgrade this database.