Reinforced concrete wall critical zones are the responsive areas of dissipated earthquake loads. They are formed in the connection of the wall panels and the fixed restraints. The longitudinal and transversal steel reinforcements with certain spacing are designed according to the required nominal strength at the connections. Under certain conditions, the reinforcement distance becomes very tight, making working on castings using normal concrete difficult. This condition also occurs in boundary elements consisting of longitudinal and transversal reinforcements in tight spaces. A concrete material that flows easily and solidifies itself is required to avoid segregation. One type of this material is Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC). The SCC performance as a wall panel material that withstands gravity and cyclic lateral loads still require further research. This study aimed to analyze the hysteretic performance of reinforced SCC wall panels with variations of shear reinforcement in resisting cyclic lateral loads. The analysis used software based on numerical analysis. The drift ratios, hysteretic curves, stress patterns, ductility, and stiffness of the wall panels were analyzed. The SCC wall panel with ordinary shear reinforcement resisted lateral positive and negative loads of 152.32 kN and 143.09 kN, respectively. In comparison, the wall panel with boundary elements and tighter shear reinforcements could withstand the positive and negative lateral loads of 187.62 kN and 145.98 kN, respectively. The SCC wall panel reached the best ductility of 21.38 with ordinary shear reinforcement because the yield occurred faster than in other wall panels. The results showed that the boundary elements and shear reinforcements of reinforced SCC wall panels affected the performance in resisting cyclic lateral loads.

This paper describes laboratory tests on twelve simply-supported one-way slabs including four lightweight concrete slabs in this study and previously conducted experiments on eight self-compacting reinforced concrete slabs subjected to loading at the age of 14 days. All slab were identical by dimensions of 3.8 m long supported on 3.5 m span, 400 mm wide, and 161 mm deep with 4N12 bars at an effective depth of 136 mm providing a reinforcement ratio of 0.008. After seven days moist-curing, the specimens were removed from the formworks and subjected to different values of the uniformly distributed loading including the self-weight of slabs. The mid-span deflection of slabs was recorded immediately after putting the loading blocks on the slabs. Despite close values of the compressive strength of the mixtures, the obtained results validate the effect of the concrete type on the instantaneous deflection of slabs. A wide range of existing models of the effective stiffness of reinforced concrete section were investigated to predict the instantaneous deflection of slabs. Majority of the models are developed for conventional concrete. Comparing the predicted and experimental results of mid-span deflection confirmed that the existing models are inadequate for lightly reinforced specimens such as slabs. New models are proposed and verified to predict the effective moment of inertia in the slabs with and without fiber reinforcing concretes.