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Staad Concrete Shearwall modeling

Thread starter snitz314
Start date Apr 20, 2006

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Apr 20, 2006

snitz314

Structural

Does anybody have a good example of how to model concrete shear walls in STAAD? I have input the plates (shells) with three nodes. I believe this will calculate the in plane stresses, but I am not sure if I have to change them all to surfaces, using 4 nodes to make each surface.

Thanks!