Abstract: Based on the beam-type element with inplane rotational degrees of freedom developed for shear wall structures, a higher order rectangular 8~10 noded element with 32~4o degrees of freedom is proposed. The element developed adopt a 3~4 order polynomial as the interpolation function along the vertical direction, each node has 4 degrees of freedom; 2 translations and 2 rotations. The numerical examples of linear static analysis for shear walls show that the computational cost of the elements used is only 1/4~1/8 and 1/2~1/5 times that of the 4 -noded bilinear element and that of the 8-noded rectangular, respectively.