Editing Shear wall (section)

=== Slenderness ratio ===
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The slenderness ratio of a wall is defined as the ratio of its effective height divided its effective thickness.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Manual for the design of plain masonry in building structures to Eurocode 6 |publisher=The Institution of Structural Engineers |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-906335-02-1}}</ref> It is highly related to the slenderness limit that is the cut-off between elements being classed "slender" or "stocky". Slender walls are vulnerable to buckling failure modes, including Euler in-plane buckling due to axial compression, Euler out-of-plane buckling due to axial compression and lateral torsional buckling due to bending moment. In the design process, structural engineers need to consider all these failure modes to ensure that the wall design is safe under various kinds of possible loading conditions.