Abstract:Four shortleg steelconcretesteel composite shear wall specimens with shearspan ratio of 1.0 and 2.0 under monotonic and cyclic loading, were designed to investigate their failure mode, ductility, stiffness, loadbearing capacity and energy dissipation. The experimental results indicated that four composite walls failed in a flexuredominated mode, undergoing concrete cracking, steel faceplate buckling and yielding, concrete crushing, steel faceplate fracture. The composite walls showed good deformation capacity with ductility coefficient more than 3.0. The wall with shearspan ratio of 2.0 had better ductility than the wall with shearspan ratio of 1.0. Compared with the wall under monotonic loading,the loadbearing capacity and ductility coefficient for the wall under cyclic loading were reduced by more than 10%. The wall under cyclic loading showed severer buckling of steel faceplates and damage of concrete, which reduced its energy dissipation. Structural measures to prevent buckling of steel faceplates are discussed.