Experimetal Verification of Shear Wall Modeling using finite element analysis

A three storey building structure from elastic material is modeled using Lexan and its behavior under an external static loading is examined. Using the photoelastic method we inspect the stresses at shear walls and the experimental results are compared with the corresponding results of a computational model by finite element method application which was developed to describe the problem.

A. Papachristidis, G. Badaloykas, B. Badaloyka
6th National Congress of Mechanics (Thessaloniki 2001)

Experimetal Verification of Shear Wall Modeling using finite element analysis