Reinforced concrete (RC) walls are used in buildings to provide lateral stiffness and strength against lateral forces like earthquake, wind etc. Shear walls are one of the most important lateral load-resisting systems in high-rise buildings. This paper provides an overview of not only reinforced concrete (RC), but also composite shear walls. The paper focuses on four inter-related review areas, namely i) conventional shear walls with rectangular cross section, ii) coupled shear walls, iii) composite shear walls, and iv) shear walls with opening(s). Behavior of shear walls which are the most damaged structural elements during earthquake and the parameters affecting this behavior are evaluated in this paper. However, this paper presents the available information about the design and performance parameters of shear walls.
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The paper presents the free vibration analysis of non-planar asymmetric shear wall structures with connecting and stiffening beams. The stiff beams incorporated at various levels of coupled shear walls improve the stiffness of the structural system of the building. The analysis is based on a variant of the continuous connection method for three-dimensional shear wall structures having stepwise changes in cross-section. The mass matrix including flexural and torsional inertia is generated. As a result of solving eigenproblem, which corresponds to free vibration equation, natural frequencies and mode shapes of vibration have been received. The results obtained by this method have been compared with those available in literature and a satisfactory match has been observed.
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The dynamic analysis of three-dimensional coupled shear wall structures in tall buildings has been studied. A hybrid approach, based on the analysis of an equivalent continuous medium and a discrete lumped mass system has been used. The algorithm of flexibility matrix computation is presented in this approach. It has been observed that the results of this method are a good match with those obtained using the finite element method.
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