Authors : Dipika N. Khandelwal , Monica S. Mhetre
Abstract -Shear walls are the structural members designed to counteract the lateral forces acting on a structure in seismically active zones when shear forces on the structure increases due to earthquake loads and/or wing load effect. Shear walls tend to provide substantial strength and stiffness as well as the deformation capacity needed for structures to meet the seismic demand. The structural designers, now days, are practicing to combine the moment resisting framed structure for resisting gravity loads and the RC shear walls for resisting lateral loads in tall building structures. As compared to the structures without shear wall, structures with Shear walls have more strength, stiffness and resist in-plane loads acting along its height also have shown very good performance in past earthquakes. This paper compiles the evaluation of optimum height and location of shear wall in high-rise building structure.
