How can I model cracked behavior for shear walls in ETABS? By You are viewing an old version (v. 3) of this page. ‘The lates verson is. 8, last edited on Apr 17, 2012 (view ditferences| ) << View previous veron | view page history | view nex! verson >> Flexural and axial behaviors for shell wall elements can be modified in ETABS by using either f11 or {22 property modifiers, depending on the orientation of your local axes. The shear behavior is controlled by f12 property modiffer, In column and code terms 11 oF £22 would correspond to modifications of El or EA and f12 would comespond to modifications to GA shear. The code recommendations in ACI318-05, Section 10.11 are related to slendemess effects where flexural deformations govern so the code recommends modifying El (corresponding to f11 or £22 for shear walls). Furthermore, ACI318-08 Section 8.8 includes recommendations for member's properties modification factors to be used for lateral loads analysis. There is no recommendation for reducing the GA shear. Modifiers for 112 can be used where deterioration of shear stiffness is expected ‘The above discussion applies when the local axes 1 and 2 of the shear wall area object are either vertical or horizontal, This is under user control. When drawing walls in ETABS, the default is to have the 1 axis horizontal and the 2 axis vertical. This means that the flexural modifier for El should be applied to 122 for wall piers and to 111 for spandrels. If you apply the modifier to both [11 and 122, it hardly affects the results.