This course provides a practical approach to modeling and analyzing Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSWs) in Abaqus. It is designed for students, researchers, and engineers who want to understand how different SPSW configurations can be developed in a finite element model, analyzed under different loading conditions, and evaluated using numerical results.

Throughout the course, you will work through 27 research-based Abaqus projects covering a wide range of Steel Plate Shear Wall configurations and structural behaviors. The projects include cyclic and pushover analyses, openings, stiffeners, corrugated plates, coupled shear walls, partial connections, and different connection conditions. Through these examples, you will learn how to create the model, define material properties and interactions, apply boundary conditions and loading protocols, generate suitable meshes, and perform the numerical analysis in Abaqus.

A key part of the course is its focus on research-based SPSW modeling. Each project is developed from a published research study, allowing you to work with realistic structural models rather than simplified or purely theoretical examples. This approach helps you understand how SPSW models are developed in research and how their structural response can be investigated using finite element analysis.

The course covers a variety of Steel Plate Shear Wall configurations and structural behaviors. You will investigate conventional and modified SPSW systems, including walls with openings, stiffeners, corrugated plates, coupling systems, partial connections, and different support and connection arrangements. The projects also include cyclic loading and pushover analysis, allowing you to examine hysteresis behavior, load-displacement response, and other important structural results.

An important feature of the course is that all 27 projects have been validated against their corresponding reference research papers. The numerical results obtained from Abaqus are compared with the results reported in the original research studies. This allows you to see how the developed models reproduce the reported structural behavior and provides a research-oriented approach to learning and validating SPSW simulations.

The course is not limited to learning how to build an Abaqus model. By working through the complete projects, you will also learn how to extract and evaluate numerical results, interpret the structural response, and compare Abaqus simulations with published research findings. This makes the course useful for developing practical Abaqus skills as well as for research projects involving Steel Plate Shear Walls.

By completing this course, you will gain practical experience in modeling, analyzing, and validating Steel Plate Shear Wall systems in Abaqus through 27 research-based projects, with the numerical results of all projects compared against their corresponding published research studies.