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Abstract The present work is concerned with an analytical and theoretical study of coupled shear walls with one row of openings. The coupled shear wall is considered one of the main clements for bearing of high rise buildings and most resistant to the vertical and horizontal (lateral) loads that occur as a result of wind settlement at foundation levels and earthquakes. The thesis also presents a mathematical model and a computer program based on ”Transfer Matrix Method” to solve the coupled shear wall with one row of opening, and this model also gives accurate results for deflection , rotation , relative movement between the two wall braces (slip) , internal forces and normal stress in comparison with the ”Finite elements method” . In this thesis the effect of opening size , shape of wall section height of the wall , position of opening and the curtailment of a coupled shear wall with one row of opening is stu-lied through a complete paramatrie study. |