Research on application of macroscopic shear wall model

An effective macroscopic model,multi-vertical-line-element model,developed in recent years,has been used to nonliear analysis for reinforced concrete shear wall structures by many researchers.In this paper,the constitutive relations for all the constituent components,the related calculating parameters,and the boundary conditions involved in this model,are discussed in detail for the application reference.Then an example for numerical verification is provided,and further improvements required in the current wall model are proposed.