Finite element analysis of shear wall / Irwan J Ibrahim

Engineers now routinely have access to highly capable 3D analysis packages
often including the ability to use finite element. More and more structures are
being analyzed in 3D and various method of modeling. We are certainly being
faced with increasingly frequently asked question relating to the modeling of
shear and core wall systems using existing modeling method. It seems that there
are many texts dealing with the theoretical aspects of finite elements analysis,
there are almost none that provide practical advice to engineers wishing to make
use of this technology. This research will touch the idealization modeling aspect
for shear wall by using LUSAS program. Shear wall will be modeled through
column analogy method, plane stress method and 3-dimensional method. By
referring to the comparison of the 3 models, it can be shown that 3-dimensional
model is the best model between the three models.