Thanks for your response Kootk!
I checked several project drawings in which the shear walls are designed as ordinary reinforced shear walls and specified as SDC C. Clearly in both cases the boundary elements are not designed following the code requirements - I guess there are no specific...
Hi all,
This question jumps out when I was reading details about the special reinforced shear wall, which already has been developed tons of requirements in ACI 318.
My understanding is that ORSW also has a yielding mechanism since it has a relatively moderate R factor, 5 (if combined with...
