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hi
I want to model the channel shaped shear wall in the seismostruct. In the modelling of RCC wall, the Seismostruct is asking for only 2 nodes, bottom one and the top one.
I want to rest my beam on the column boundary element of shear wall. Problem is, there is no connection between the external beam and the boundary element of shear wall.
I have academic license of seismostruct in which building modeller option is not available.
Please tell me how to connect the beam with boundary element of shear wall.

Hi kedarsabharanjak.

You might try modeling the boundary elements as columns, rather than as part of the shear wall. You would then have a shear wall, without the boundary portions, halfway between the two columns. You would want to try parametric studies on how much subdivision is required for the various elements, column and shear walls. I haven't tried this. So I am not certain it will produce the behavior you wish to model. But it is the first thing that comes to mind.

Best of luck kedarsabharanjak.

Same problem.. It should ask for four nodes.So that we can define shear wall properly similar to infill panel..But here its only possible to rest SW on column..half both side

You may model the rigid offset lengths of the beam-column joints, by using appropriate values of the element offsets in the Element Connectivity module.
Although the Building Modeller calculates automatically the offset values, it should not be difficult in the Academic release of the program to manually calculate and introduce them.

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