Good day,
I would like to find out how best can the supports for a shear wall be modeled. Considering the footing under a shear wall is continuous, placing fixed footing at the ends of the wall would suggest that the wall is only supported at these point, which in my view is inaccurate. Is it acceptable to model a shear wall supported by multiple fixed footings to simulate a continuous type of fixed foundation?
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Thanks,