I have a shear wall foundation with column elements at each end. I have modeled it several different ways and each will result in different foundation designs for the shear wall. Can someone enlighted me on the correct way to model the system? I've modeled it with just the lateral shear walls and the girders framing into the ends of the walls. I've used a wall footing below this shear wall. The second way I've framed this is to provide concrete columns a ends of the shear wall to receive the girders. For this second way, I've only used the continuous wall foundation system. The last way is to include the columns at the ends of the walls, but also include a column foundation for those columns. The shear wall still bears on a wall footing. Which way is correct? The third way results in quite a large foundation system.
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