This paper proposes a novel flat-corrugated steel plate shear wall （FCSPSW） and explores its elastic buckling performance along with the design and calculation methods for its stability bearing capacity. The FCSPSW is constructed by connecting flat and corrugated steel plate standard units. The latter are fabricated in a factory using a fully available and automatic production line， which ensures high production efficiency. Through the finite element numerical analysis of a large number of examples， the shear elastic buckling modes， elastic buckling loads， failure modes， instability mechanisms， and stability bearing capacity prediction for both welded and bolted connection types of FCSPSWs were studied respectively. This numerical investigation revealed the influence of different design parameters on the buckling and bearing capacity. Finally， design methods for predicting the shear stability bearing capacity of two types of FCSPSWs were proposed.
Luan et al. (Wed,) studied this question.