Shear walls are walls specifically designed to resist lateral loads, transferring the load from the wall above to the wall below and, ultimately, out through the foundation. This is a critical role in ...

Research shows that engineered wooden nail connections significantly improve shear resistance in timber shear walls, ...

CECO Concrete Construction’s approach to planning ... placement and a satisfied client at its recent work on shear walls at a multi-family project adjacent to Safeco Field in Seattle, Wash.

There is a growing interest in using coupled composite plate shear walls/ concrete-filled (CPSW/CF) for high-rise building construction, particularly to optimize the design for wind and/or seismic ...

Finite element method (FEM). Connections. Abstract: Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) are investigated in this report, for use in retrofit and new design as a lateral force resisting system in building ...

The California Building Code and other U.S. building codes have always had schedules for shear wall nailing (although they do permit other types of fasteners). My structural engineers have always ...

This paper “ Numerical investigation of seismic performance and size effect in CFRP-reinforced concrete shear walls” was published in Smart Construction. Li B, Li D, Chen F, Jin L, Du X.

has taken Seattle’s 850-ft-tall proof of concept for SpeedCore—a novel modular steel-plate shear-wall sandwich system—to new heights. And the creators of the 19-story office building have ...

building codes will take a historic leap forward in the next few years to allow higher-strength 80-ksi reinforcing steel, instead of 60 ksi, in reinforced concrete shear walls.