Review on Seismic Analysis of Multi- Storey Building with Various Locations of Shear Walls Using ETABS

Shear walls are specially designed structural members provided in the multi-storey buildings to resist lateral forces. These walls have very high in-plane strength and stiffness, which can resist large horizontal forces and can support gravity loads. There are lots of literatures available to design and analyse the shear wall. However, what is the optimum location of shear wall in multi-storey buildings is discussed in many literature. It is very necessary to determine effective, efficient and ideal location of shear wall to get effective performance of the buildings. These walls are more important in seismically active zones when shear forces on the structure increases due to earthquakes .Various research studies have been performed on the analysis of shear wall and its performance under the seismic forces. This paper presents the literature review of various studies done earlier on the factors which affect the performance of shear walls such as location of shear walls, configuration and different types of shape.