Deflection Analysis

Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in WoodWorks Shearwalls for version 9 and may not reflect current behavior.

Shearwalls now calculates the deflection of each wall segment between openings for each design case (wind, seismic, rigid, flexible, E->W, W->E). It uses this deflection to

• determine the storey drift, and check that it is within allowable limits for seismic design
• distribute loads to segments within a shearline based on equal deflection of segments
• determine rigidities for the rigid diaphragm method of distributing loads to shearwalls.