Seismic Performance of Rocking Concrete Shear Walls With Innovative Rotational Resilient Slip Friction Joints

With the prevalence of the concept of damage avoidance design, rocking walls were one of the primary solutions to minimize structural components’ damage as well as decreasing the time and cost of building rehabilitation after severe earthquakes. in this study, in order to achieve a self-centring damage avoidance rocking system, a new generation ofrotational resilient slip friction joint (rotational-rsfj) has been employed as a shear link between reinforced concrete shear walls and their boundary columns.