Abstract：In order to study the seismic behavior of wood walls with glass fiber-enhanced cladding, such as failure mode, hysteretic characteristics, carrying capacity and deformation capacity, two wood walls without studs and one with stud were tested under cyclic loading. The results show that all specimens fail in flexure-compression mode. Horizontal and diagonal cracking occur at the bottom of the specimens, vertical cracks occur at the frame-wall interface; cracks occurred earlier on the wall under high axial force. Large rotation occurs at the wall-pedestal interface, the displacement from revised lateral load versus displacement is about 1/5 of the measured top displacement, the drift ratio corresponding to peak load ranged from 1/528 to 1/445. The peak load carrying capacity of the specimen reaches 100kN, which can meet the aseismic requirements for low-rise residential building in zones of seismic fortification intensity no more than 8.
