Research Article

Investigation on the Design Method of Shear Strength and Lateral Stiffness of the Cold-Formed Steel Shear Wall

Table 3

Comparison of the calculated results and test results.

Specimenf d (N)P c (kN)P m (kN)P y (kN)P d (kN)P c /P dP m /P d

WALL12744.195.697.485.980.70.95
WALL290713.8616.6321.5017.200.810.97
WALL3118118.0421.6529.1223.300.770.93