2010•SSRN Electronic JournalOpen access

A Study of Openings in Shear Walls

Vinay Kumar Sehgal, S. S. Kadam

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Medium-rise RC framed apartment buildings with storey ranging from 8-12 are becoming popular in metropolitan areas of India. These are provided with shear walls to improve the lateral load resistance. Frequently, the shear walls are provided with openings for functional requirement. Therefore, in the present work, an analytical study on the effect of openings in shear walls was undertaken. The parameters studied are column shear, moments, deflections, stresses within the shear wall, peak storey shear and base shear. A 3D analysis of the shear wall structure was carried out using the STAAD.Pro 2006 software package.

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Key concepts: Shear wall, Shear (geology), Structural engineering, Shear force, Shear and moment diagram, Geotechnical engineering, Apartment, Geology