Innovative steel-concrete hybrid coupled walls for buildings in seismic areas: advancements and design guidelines

RFCS-2019

Start date: 1 July 2020
End date: 31 December 2023
Project cost: € 1 240 596,7
DICI Team Leader: Walter Salvatore
Project website: https://www.hycad.be/

The research project HYCAD is devoted to the development of original solutions – including analysis, design, detailing and construction –related to an innovative seismic-resistant steel-concrete hybrid coupled wall system, originally introduced among other possible innovations in the 2011-2014 RFCS research project INNO-HYCO.

Such system was shown through numerical analyses and experimental tests to have very encouraging potentialities in seismic areas although more studies are indispensable to foster its adoption in the construction market. The HYCAD outcomes will include guidelines and worked examples to support the design and the application of the proposed innovative hybrid system.

Coordinator
UNIVERSITEIT HASSELT
 

Other participants

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAMERINO, Italy
• UNIVERSITA DI PISA, Italy
• RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN, Germany
• FERRIERE NORD SPA, Italy
• SHELTER ANONYMOS VIOMICHANIKI ETAIRIA EPENDYSEON KAI KATASKEVON, Greece
• OCAM SRL, Italy