ETABS Shear Wall Manual [PDF] UBC 97

ETABS features powerful and completely integrated modules for the design of steel and concrete frames, composite beams and concrete shear walls. This manual documents design of concrete shear walls using the 1997 UBC in ETABS. The goal of this manual is to provide you with all of the information required to reproduce the ETABS Shear Wall Design post processor results using hand calculations.

What is Shear Wall?

"wind and seismic loads are the most common loads that shear walls are designed to carry."

Shear wall is a structural system composed of braced panels or shear panels to resist the effects of lateral load acting on a structure, wind and seismic loads are the most common loads that shear walls are designed to carry. Under several building codes, including the international Building Code and uniform building code, all exterior wall lines in wood or steel frame construction must be braced. Depending on the size of the building some interior walls must be braced as well.

A structure of shear walls in the center of a large building – often encasing an elevator shaft or stairwell – form a shear core. 

Title of the Manual

ETABS Shear Wall Design Manual UBC 97

Contents of the Manual

Introduction

Shear Wall Design Process

Design Menu commands for shear wall Design

Interactive Shear wall design and Review

General Design Information

Wall pier Design Sections

Wall Spandrel Design Sections

1997 UBC Shear Wall Design Preferences

1997 UBC Shear Wall Design Overwrites

1997 UBC Design Load Combinations

1997 UBC Wall pier Boundary Elements

1997 UBC Wall Pier Flexural Design

1997 UBC Wall pier Shear Design

1997 UBC Spandrel Flexural Design

1997 UBC Spandrel Shear Design

Overview of Shear Wall Output

Output Data plotted directly on the model

Printed Design input data

Printed Design Output data

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