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Thanks Rui. I did try to model the walls using different element classes and for each I was getting different behavior. However, for slender walls (height more than twice the width) I was getting very weird hysteretic curves for the walls.

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Nader Aly

<t>Rui,<br/>
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Thank you for the very useful information. I have went through example 4-2. They have used force based element class for the special RC wall. However, I am still unable to verify whether the software is capable of differentiating between ordinary and special shear walls from their ...

<t>Dear All,<br/>
I am modeling RC shear walls with different ductility. Based on the literature I went through, a special RC shear wall shall have a mild strength and stiffness degradation. On the other hand, an ordinary RC shear wall might have a severe or moderate degradation. my question is do I ...