@article {bnh-3553,
	title = {Plastic hinge length for lightly reinforced rectangular concrete walls},
	journal = {Journal of Earthquake Engineering},
	year = {2017},
	month = {05/2017},
	pages = {1-32},
	chapter = {1},
	abstract = {<p><span>This research investigates the plastic hinge length in lightly reinforced rectangular walls typically found in regions of low-to-moderate seismicity. Poor performance has been exhibited by lightly reinforced concrete walls in past earthquake events. A series of finite element analyses have been carried out which demonstrate that if the longitudinal reinforcement ratio in the wall is below a certain threshold value, there will not be sufficient reinforcement to cause secondary cracking, and instead fracture of the longitudinal reinforcement at a single crack could occur. A plastic hinge length equation has been derived based on the results from the numerical simulations.</span></p>},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632469.2017.1286619},
	url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13632469.2017.1286619},
	author = {Ryan D. Hoult and Helen M. Goldsworthy and Elisa Lumantarna}
}
