- BTech: India, 2019
- MTech: IIT Gandhinagar, India, 2021
- Present: PhD Scholar, IIT, Palakkad
Email: menon_aiswarya@iitgn.ac.in
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aiswarya_Menon2
Area: Seismic design of shear wall
Shear walls have been an integral part of lateral load resisting system in seismic design. Aspect ratio of a shear wall is defined as the ratio of overall height to its length. Force transfer mechanism greatly depends on the aspect ratio and most standards consider flexural dominated behavior for an aspect ratio exceeding two (slender) while a shear dominated behavior (squat), otherwise. Indian standard is of exception but further discretizes the non-flexure region. However, the fact which has been ignored by the code writers all throughout is that the aspect ratio alone cannot address the probable failure modes and in turn, the seismic performances of RC shear walls. Towards this, two important parameters are the Shear span length ratio (SLR) and Axial load ratio (ALR). Hence a completely different design philosophy needs to be adopted to arrest the new failure modes evolving with the ALR and SLR. We aim to access the influence of ALR and SLR on seismic performance of buildings with shear wall.
Publications:
- Sharma, S., Gurjar, N., Menon, A., Sriwastav, R. K., and Basu, D. (2022). “Developing axial force bending moment interaction charts for the seismic design of RC slender shear walls with boundary elements”, The Indian Concrete Journal, Vol. 96, No. 5, pp. 29-58.
