Nonpropotionate wall

systems
Shear wall
• Shear walls resist lateral forces viz. earthquake force
and wind force for high-rise structure and gravity load
for all type of structure.

• Once shear walls are designed and constructed properly,

they will have the strength and stiffness to resist the
horizontal forces

• Tall buildings using shear walls will consist of an

assembly of walls of different lengths and thicknesses
• Linking these walls requires a careful study of how the moments and shears redistribute their
loads between the walls and their connecting girders and floor slabs.

• As an aid to understand the behaviour of shear wall structures Shear walls can be designed to be
either:

• a) proportionate wall systems

• b) non-proportionate system of walls

proportionate wall system
• In a proportionate wall system, the ratios of the flexural
rigidities remain constant throughout their heights.

• For example a set of walls whose length don’t change

throughout their height but whose changing wall thickness
are same at any level is proportionate.

• These walls do not incur any re-distribution of shears or

moments at the change of levels.

• This statical determinacy of proportionate systems allows

their analysis to be made by considerations of equilibrium.

• the external moment and shear is distributed between the

walls in proportion to their flexural rigidities
non-proportionate wall system
• In a non-proportionate wall system, the ratios of wall
flexural rigidities are not constant up the building’s
height. At stories where the rigidities change there will
be redistributions of the shears and moments in the
walls.

• With corresponding horizontal interactions in the

connecting members and the possibility of very high
local shears in the walls.
• This system is statically indeterminate and difficult to visualize in behaviour and to
analyze by hand. For that reason, they are analyzed using the finite element method or
the analogous frame analysis