ANALYSIS OF TYPICAL SHEAR WALL-SLAB BUILDINGS

A number of tall buildings consisting of pairs of parallel inplane cross walls and connecting slabs was analysed to find the range of the forces acting on the slabs due to combined effect of wind and gravity loading and the most highly stressed slabs were designed for flexure to find the range of the areas of reinforcing steel. The purpose was to investigate if this steel was within the practical range of the steel ratio which could be accommodated in a slab without facing formidable difficulty regarding its placement. The strength of the wall-slab connection was also estimated using the prevailing methods in order to check the rate of agreement between different methods and to find out whether the connection was sufficiently strong to transfer all the shear and unbalanced moment from the slab to the wall without shear reinforcement.