Abstract
This paper proposes the evaluation method of seismic performance of shear resisting elements in timber construction with shear walls. Proposed new evaluation method uses two parameters of horizontal stiffness and potential energy of the shear walls. These two design values provide horizontal damage limit and safety limit strengths of stories that have equal quality to those by the summation of load-deformation curves of the shear walls. These strengths by this method have less variety than those by existing simple evaluation method. This method also provides Ds values of stories that consist of different type of shear walls. Ds values of the stories have not been provided by the existing simple evaluation method. Precise safety limit strengths and Ds-values of the stories realize to apply horizontal load-carrying capacity design method for the structures with different type of shear walls. This evaluation method would be possible to apply for other structures than the timber construction as a simplified method.
