Good Morning. I wanted to know the correct way to analyze a plywood shear wall in ETABS. What I commonly do is to put the metal studs and create a shell with the "membrane" property and a thickness close to "0" to distribute the load in these studs. Is this the correct way?
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How to Model Plywood Shear Wall in ETABS?
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