Analysis of building shear walls using boundary elements

摘要

This paper deals with the analysis of building shear walls using the boundary element method (BEM). Two collocation techniques are used in the analysis (regular and singular). The wall is modeled using both constant and quadratic boundary elements. An example problem with several parametric studies is demonstrated. The results compared to the results of different finite element models to show the accuracy and the reliability of the boundary element method in the analysis of such structures.