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“Optimum Location of Different Shapes of Shear Walls in Unsymmetrical High Rise Buildings” carried by Murali Krishna, Dr. E Arunakanthi [5] Shear walls are structural members used to augment the strength of RCC structures. These concrete or masonry continuous vertical walls will serve both architecturally as partitions and structurally to carry gravity and lateral loading. Their very high in-plane stiffness and strength makes them ideally suited for bracing tall buildings. They act as vertical cantilevers in the form of separate planar wall, and as non planar assemblies of connected walls around stairs, elevators and service shafts. Shear walls are added to the building interior to provide extra strength and stiffness to the building when the exterior walls cannot provide sufficient strength and stiffness. It is very necessary to determine the efficient, effective and ideal location of shear wall. The present work deals with a study on the optimum location of shear walls in an unsymmetrical high rise buildings. In this work a high rise building with different locations of shear walls with different shapes is considered for analysis. The high rise building is analyzed for its torsion, strength and stability using ETABS software. So that by using different types of shear wall location one can reduces the, storey drift, storey displacement, storey acceleration as well time period.