Numerical modeling of a PSD test on a dual RC system

This work describes the setup and the performance of a numerical model pertaining to the global type. In such a model, only few elements are used to represent a complete structural element. Here, columns, shear walls, beams and coupling beams are modeled using a column fiber model previously developed. The obtained results highlight the possibility of these models to capture, with reasonable accuracy, the structural response even for a relatively complex structure as is a dual RC system having coupled shear walls.