The R.C. slitted wall has been recognized as an efficient energy absorption structure.It ismodelled as an equivalent column in this study.One of the boundary conditions of this columnis assumed to be elastically restrained,while the other one is clamped.The load-horizontaldisplacement relation of this column is taken to be tri-linear.The proposed model is first verifiedby comparing the analytical solutions with the experimental results,and they show satisfactoryagreement.Then the earthquake resistance capability of the slitted wall is studied by investigatingthe retrofit of a two-story framed masonry building and the response of a ten-story reinforcedconcrete structure.The results show that the earthquake resistance capability of the R.C.slittedwall is better than that of the conventional reinforced concrete shear wall.