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You should know Dadomago that trying to get something past PSV (the certifying engineers) to different code than AS is like pushing the "proverbial" up the hill. Before ETABS introduced AS3600 I was using ACI318-9? code with AS phi factors and that was difficult too. Wall shear is the most...

Trenno, I am aware of other code provisions. My point was that AS3600 has none. Certifying engineers will not accept ACI code in Australia.

Yes, thanks all I have found it now, as you say Doug it is out of chronological sequence.

I look before I replied on the SAA site there is nothing

The commentary you talking about is 1996 so it does not apply to 2001 or 2009 code. This is when they removed the overall height reference completely. Axial compression is rarely a problem except for slender walls and than reinforcing does not help - most walls are minimum 0.0025 steel so not...

That is what I am talking about - SHEAR

I am canvasing opinions of engineers on shear wall design. I find AS3600 cl 11.5 very limiting and highly illogical (wrong) for tall buildings. In Australia frame action is all but ignored (because of flat slab construction). Building stability relies 100% on shear walls often precast. Yet the...