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    OWSJ Roof deflection

    Thank you KootK, attached a plan view, could you provide a prudent option for this situation
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    OWSJ Roof deflection

    Attached roof plan and floor level plan
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    OWSJ Roof deflection

    With vibration, checked for the floor framing system (metal deck with concrete), and the floor beam configuration was ok, but didn't link that to the OWSJ connection with hangers. One end of walkway is connected to regular beam/ column and other end to the hangers and to roof joist
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    OWSJ Roof deflection

    Hi, There is an 80-foot span open web steel joist, and apart from the roof loading, it also picks up the floor walking track hung through the hangers. In this case how to go about the deflection limit, the Live load limit L/360 allows 2.67" and total L/240 allows 4". These look large value...
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    Slenderness Minor Axis Length

    HDStructural:- In STAAD could you do the DAM (Direct analysis method) check/ design the member strengths and then in the same model do regular analysis without DAM to check for the member deflections? without having to remove the DAM commands?
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    Slenderness Minor Axis Length

    HD Structural:- Thats good to know I was using UNT & UNB for inputting the unbraced length for top and bottom extreme fiber in compression.
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    Slenderness Minor Axis Length

    Kootk:- that was hard to say I am not able to recall but I think there was one more floor above, so could be with concrete topping. But attached detail below where there is a continuous L-angle running across the OWSJ and bolted to top chords and deck and the brace gets attached here, is this a...
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    Slenderness Minor Axis Length

    KootK:-I saw this on one of the office buildings where they had the L-angle brace onto the metal deck. In this case the adjacent steel (Open web steel joist) is 6' away from this, when I have the angle brace onto the OWSJ the angle comes out to 14 deg. approx. is that slope ok for a brace...
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    Slenderness Minor Axis Length

    Hi, These are roof beams, but on some loading cases (lateral) there are compression forces in these members. These members are fine for its major axis bending action and gravity deflection, however, because of the length and the minor axis (ry) value, the slenderness limit exceeds 200 and get...
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    Out of plane moment (lateral force)

    EngDm, that could be done too but the deflection in minor axis of beam would be huge for a 35 feet span isn't it.
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    Out of plane moment (lateral force)

    That's correct broke down the in plane moment of diaphragm into a comp. Force of 1.65 kips. On the chord member. So in this case the in plane moment need not be checked on the minor axis of the W beam chord ? Right
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    Out of plane moment (lateral force)

    Hi, It might be a basic question but just wanted to run it by for clarification. The roof diaphragm runs north south in the attached image and the chord members are W beams in (tension and compression), the deck is attached to these beams. From the diaphragm moment and diaphragm depth...
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    Isolated PAD footing, Weight of soil

    Hi, For an isolated pad footing, when it needs to resist horizontal force from the column, is it normal industry practice to take into the account the weight of soil above the footing (lets say 3 feet of soil, if the footing thickness is 1 feet and the bottom of footing is 4 feet below grade)...
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    Moment connection between wide flange and channels

    The top and bottom flange of Channel restrained then would be ok to dive in the moment connx. direction,Since its like built tup section, the unbraced length can be more for your C-Channels. Is it not possible to use HSS?
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    Opening in Pile shaft

    Thank you, the Cb factor for moment capacities for this stuff, is it better to leave it at 1 or leave it to program computed Cb values (This gives higher capacity)?

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