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    Concrete Shear Wall Design - Singular Wall Using ETABS Questions and Answers

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    The webinar discussed modeling and designing singular concrete shear walls in ETABS. Key topics included: 1. Modeling wall-column connections by assigning the same pier label and designing together in Section Designer. 2. Shear wall design preferences allow defining importance factors separately from seismic loads. 3. Thick shell elements account for transverse shear deformation compared to thin shells. 4. ETABS designs shear walls legs separately regardless of C-shape or L-shape. Shear reinforcement can only be designed, not checked, in ETABS.

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    The webinar discussed modeling and designing singular concrete shear walls in ETABS. Key topics included: 1. Modeling wall-column connections by assigning the same pier label and designing together in Section Designer. 2. Shear wall design preferences allow defining importance factors separately from seismic loads. 3. Thick shell elements account for transverse shear deformation compared to thin shells. 4. ETABS designs shear walls legs separately regardless of C-shape or L-shape. Shear reinforcement can only be designed, not checked, in ETABS.

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    The webinar discussed modeling and designing singular concrete shear walls in ETABS. Key topics included: 1. Modeling wall-column connections by assigning the same pier label and designing together in Section Designer. 2. Shear wall design preferences allow defining importance factors separately from seismic loads. 3. Thick shell elements account for transverse shear deformation compared to thin shells. 4. ETABS designs shear walls legs separately regardless of C-shape or L-shape. Shear reinforcement can only be designed, not checked, in ETABS.

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    The webinar discussed modeling and designing singular concrete shear walls in ETABS. Key topics included: 1. Modeling wall-column connections by assigning the same pier label and designing together in Section Designer. 2. Shear wall design preferences allow defining importance factors separately from seismic loads. 3. Thick shell elements account for transverse shear deformation compared to thin shells. 4. ETABS designs shear walls legs separately regardless of C-shape or L-shape. Shear reinforcement can only be designed, not checked, in ETABS.

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    WEBINAR: Concrete Shear Wall Design- Singular Wall Using

    ETABS

    Webinar Questions and Answers

    1. Q: How do you model the wall and column connection? Will tension in the model be considered when
    modelled separately?
    A: If there is a column connected at the ends of a shear wall, you can assign the same pier label to
    the shear wall and column. Then, go to Design>Shear Wall Design>Define General Sections to
    create a Section Designer Section. You will see the column and shear wall brought in to Section
    Designer and will be designed together. The tension in the model will be considered when modelled
    in this manner. The PMM interaction diagram will be generated for the column and shear wall.

    2. Q: Why is there Importance Value and Cd value repeated in Shear Wall Design preferences when it
    is already assigned in the Seismic load pattern?
    A: Users could define many different Seismic load patterns with different R and I values, therefore the
    Importance and Cd value can also be defined in the Shear Wall Design preferences.

    3. Q: What is the difference between “Shell thick” and “Shell Thin” when defining wall/slab sections?

    A: The inclusion of transverse shear deformation in plate-bending behavior is the main difference
    between thin and thick shell formulation. Thin-plate formulation follows a Kirchhoff application, which
    neglects transverse shear deformation, whereas thick-plate formulation follows Mindlin/Reissner,
    which does account for shear behavior. Thick-plate formulation has no effect upon membrane (in-
    plane) behavior, only plate-bending (out-of-plane) behavior.
    Shear deformation tends to be important when shell thickness is greater than approximately 1/5
    to 1/10 of the span of plate-bending curvature. Shearing may also become significant in locations of
    bending-stress concentrations, which occur near sudden changes in thickness or support conditions,
    and near openings or re-entrant corners. Thick-plate formulation is best for such applications.
    Thick-plate formulation is also recommended in general because it tends to be more accurate, though
    slightly stiffer, even for thin-plate bending problems in which shear deformation is truly negligible.
    However, the accuracy of thick-plate formulation is sensitive to mesh distortion and large aspect
    ratios, and therefore should not be used in such cases when shear deformation is known to be small.

    4. Q: How will the boundary element be determined for C-shaped and L-shaped walls?
    A: ETABS will always design the boundary zone for each leg separately regardless of the shape of
    the shear wall. In the design report, you will see information displayed for Leg 1, Leg 2 etc.
    WEBINAR: Concrete Shear Wall Design- Singular Wall Using
    ETABS

    5. Q: Will using the auto wall-opening tool and defining an opening by meshing the wall manually
    generate the same output results?
    A: Yes, if you use the auto wall opening tool, you must take one extra step prior to analysis to ensure
    the wall is meshed properly and results will match the manually meshed wall output. Select the walls
    and wall openings, go to Edit>Edit Shells>Divide wall for Openings. Now the walls are meshed for
    properly load distribution.

    6. Q: Which stress output would be appropriate to check stresses in the walls?


    A: The basic shell element stresses are identified as S11, S22, S12, S13, and S23.
    o S11: Direct stress (force per unit area) acting on the positive and negative 1 faces in the 1-axis
    direction.
    o S22: Direct stress (force per unit area) acting on the positive and negative 2 faces in the 2-axis
    direction.
    o S12: Shearing stress (force per unit area) acting on the positive and negative 1 faces in the 2-
    axis direction and acting on the positive and negative 2 faces in the 1-axis direction.
    o SMax: Maximum principal stress (force per unit area). Note that by definition principal stresses
    are oriented such that the associated shearing stress is zero.
    o SMin: Minimum principal stress (force per unit area). Note that by definition principal stresses
    are oriented such that the associated shearing stress is zero.
    o SVM: Von Mises principal stress (force per unit area).
    o S13: Out-of-plane shearing stress (force per unit area) acting on the positive and negative 1
    faces in the 3-axis direction.
    o S23: Out-of-plane shearing stress (force per unit area) acting on the positive and negative 2
    faces in the 3-axis direction.
    o SMaxV: Maximum principal shearing stress (force per unit area). Note that by definition principal
    shearing stresses are oriented on faces of the element such that the associated shears per unit
    length on perpendicular faces are zero.
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    ETABS

    7. Q: How can we see what shear reinforcement is used?


    A: In ETABS, shear reinforcement can be viewed in the Shear Wall Design Details. It is important to
    note that shear reinforcement can only be designed in ETABS, not checked. User cannot enter shear
    reinforcement to be checked (D/C ratio) in ETABS.

    8. Q: Inclined slab (such as stairs and ramps) appears as walls, do you use shear wall design or slab
    design for design of these elements?
    A: Sloping area design is not currently available in ETABS.

    9. Q: What is the advantage of using Simplified C & T design over Uniform reinforcing approach?
    A: It is recommended that you use the Uniform reinforcement approach for shear wall design.
    Simplified C & T design is primarily used for very simple planar walls.

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