The effect of shear wall location in resisting earthquake

Shear wall is one of lateral resisting structure which is used commonly. Shear wall gives high stiffness to the structure so as the structure will be stable. Applying shear wall can effectively reduce the displacement and story-drift of the structure. This will reduce the destruction comes from lateral loads such as an earthquake. Earlier studies showed that shear wall gives different performance based on its position in structures. In this paper, seismic analysis has been performed using response spectrum method for different Model of structures; they are the open frame, the shear wall at core symmetrically, the shear wall at periphery symmetrically, and the shear wall at periphery asymmetrically. The results are observed by comparing the displacement and story-drift. Based on the analysis, the placement of shear wall at the core of structure symmetrically gives the best performance to reduce the displacement and story-drift. It can reduce the displacement up to 61.16% (X-dir) and 70.60% (Y-dir). The placement of shear wall at periphery symmetrically will reduce the displacement up to 53.85% (X-dir) and 47.87% (Y-dir) while the placement of shear wall at periphery asymmetrically reducing the displacement up to 59.42% (X-dir) and 66.99% (Y-dir). (paper)