Load capacity and deformability of timber shear wall assembly

Abstract

In my thesis I review the analytical methods for design of wooden frame shear walls and\ud provide the knowledge acquired for comprehending these methods. In the first chapter I run\ud through the way of usage, functions and construction methods. Later on I describe the integral\ud problem, where the need for shear walls arises from; in the process I describe trajectories of\ud the forces as they travel through the structure between different structural assemblies. At the\ud end of the second chapter I point out possible problems which occur with this construction\ud method. In the final chapter I focus on explaining the analytical methods