Coupled Walls / Moment Frames

[slickdeals]

Folks,
Are there published formulae or quick ways to determine lateral stiffness of coupled shear walls and multi-bay moment frames without doing fancy analysis? I want to be able to account for the flexural stiffness of the coupling beams/frames.

Thanks

 

[miecz]

Tall Building Structures Analysis and Design by Smith and Coull has an excellent formulation for Coupled Shear Walls and Wall-Frame Structures, complete with examples, but I wouldn't call it quick.

 

[csd72]

http://www.structuremag.org/Archives/2007-4/F-HighRise-Maffei-Apr07-online version.pdf

Do a search on that site for more relevant articles.