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Wall panels are required to be designed which should be load bearing as well as insulated. A concept is developed to build such panels with total thickness of 8” (20 cm), having two layers of high-performance concrete sheets on the sides filled with the insulation, each of these two sheets to be of 3-4 cm thick reinforced concrete, using welded wire mesh as reinforcement, both sheets should be linked with vertical reinforced concrete ribs (columns) placed at short distance, in order to; (1) provide enough stiffness against axial load and buckling, (2) carrying the built-in beam to transfer the load of slab and (3) the entire panel will work as bracing for the frame structure to take the lateral loads in seismic zones. In addition to that the house construction with such panels is assumed to be more economical than the overall brick and concrete structure. The question is that how can we perform the analysis and design calculation of such panels especially can we use ETABS to conduct such analysis and design calculations? If yes, please let me know how? As I have tried to find out in my ETABS 2016 but could not. There is a provision for core wall design but not the hollow insulated wall as mentioned above. Thanks and best regards. Aslam

salam anypbody have modelled any building with structural concrete insulated panels in etabs?or used in research work.