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    Calculating Wind Story Shears for a Multi Story Bldg

    Ahh that makes sense. So what I am asking for is the story force then right? And the story ahead is the summation of all the story forces?
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    Calculating Wind Story Shears for a Multi Story Bldg

    thread507-269718 Hello. I am interested in calculating wind story shears for a 7 story building. Following the thread topic on wind base shear (I know codes have changed since), are each story shear calc as simple as taking the windward + leeward wind pressure times the width of that side of...
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    Inner workable flat dimensions of an HSS Rect.

    Thanks @jayrod12 (not sure how to properly tag you and reply directly to your comment). It in the Steel Manual, it says the outer corner radii are taken as 1.5tdes. I took this as the worst case and considered the 6" -2*outer corner radii - 2*tdes = 4.275" which still does not give me enough...
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    Inner workable flat dimensions of an HSS Rect.

    Hello all, First time posting. Forgive me for any inconceivable mistakes. I am needing to know the inner workable flat dimension length for a HSS 6"x 4"x 3/8". What I am bolting a W6x15 post to a 6" long side of the HSS with two 1"Ø A325 bolts that are spaced 3 1/2" apart, center-to-center...

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