Performance sismique des structures à murs banchés

ABSTRACT This article presents a research programme carried out around a test on a shaking table at LNEC Lisbon. The model (scaled 1/3) is representative of a cell of building with slightly reinforced concrete structural walls. In the first part, the presentation, the realisation and the analysis of the test are exposed, showing that the followed design philosophy is adequate. In the second part, two types of finite element modelling are presented (a refined and simplified one). They prove the know-how acquired in this field giving access to a reliable simulation of the phenomena and to a fine analysis of the local and global behaviour of the structure.