ISSN 1520-295X Performance-Based Assessment and Design of Squat Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls by Cevdet Kerem Gulec and Andrew S. Whittaker Technical Report MCEER-09-0010 September 15, 2009 This research was conducted at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York and was supported primarily by the Earthquake Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation under award number EEC 9701471.