To show the interaction effect between the transfer plate and shear walls, analyses of the complete and simplified models shown in Figure 2 are conducted and compared. It is seen that the complete model (Figure 2a) contains the entire system, in which the shear wall with thickness t is subjected to the vertical uniformly distributed load w; while the simplified one (Figure 2b) only consists of the transfer plate, support columns and the same loading. It is clear that no interaction between the trans- fer plate and shear walls will be considered in the simplified model.