Author : Gagan Yadav and Sagar Jamle

Normally it has been seen that shear walls are used for stiffening the entire structure, to overcome the effects seismic activities. Since the shear wall is made up of reinforced concrete and make the entire building very costly. One of the solutions adopted as per analysis is that there should be opening criteria of shear wall within the limit. This will be a most effective solution of cost reduction of the building along with the seismic resistant structure. In this work, firstly literature survey has performed and it has been seen that most of the researchers done a very good job to make the seismic resistant building. On other hand, none of them have done the opening area effect of the shear wall to make it cost effective. The following work started with the introductory part with types of core type shear wall then types of wall opening. After then review of literature have been performed then at the end of the work, conclusions and outline of the proposed work have made.

Keywords: Base Shear, Core Type Shear Wall, Importance Factor, Lateral load, Optimum Case, Shear Wall Opening

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.10, No.2 (March/April 2020)