EFFECT OF SHEAR WALLS IN TALL BUILDING

Shear walls are concrete or masonry continuous vertical walls which may serve both
architecturally as partitions and structurally to carry gravity and lateral loading. Their very
high in-plane stiffness and strength makes them ideally suited for bracing tall buildings.
A research on the effect of shear walls of tall building against lateral wind load from
different directions is investigated in this project. The objectives of this research are to
determine the effective locations and the effective shape of shear walls which produce
economic and safe tall building against wind load. STAAD software will be used for
analyzing and designing.
This research will start with 30 stories building without shear wall; followed by the same
building with different locations of plane shear wall to determine its effective location.
The final building will be designed with flange shear walls and channel shear wall to
determine the reduction of overall deflection, reduction of reinforcement and the change in
usable area.