How should I position the shear wall? These is a question that comes up all the time among structural designers. To answer this question let me clarify what shear walls do. Shear walls provides extra stiffness to the structure to resist against lateral loads. So the dimension of shear walls must be large enough to […]
What are a Shear Wall? Buildings are always subjected to lateral loading. To restrict the lateral deformation of building, some members must be designed to counteract the lateral forces in each directions. One technic is to design shear walls. In simple words, a shear wall is a structural member with high bending stiffness that strengthen […]
Centroid and center of gravity are two important concepts in statics. However in static problems we always assume that the weight force is a concentrated force, but in reality the force is applied on all particles of the body. in fact we replace that all of these small forces by a single equivalent force (the […]