Good afternoon all,
We have come across a situation where some existing high density homes (think townhome but without the party wall, rather a ~4-6 gap between individual homes) are experiencing enough movement in the wind that the homeowner's have complained. I'm curious to know if anyone...
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See the reference thread.
I am working on developing some wind pressure profiles for temporary applications. I am running into the same question as the original poster for the referenced thread.
ASCE 7-05 (as well as previous versions) provides a table (C6-7) in the...
I think it would be difficult to justify treating a wood floor or roof system as rigid diaphragm. When considering a flexible diaphragm, you aren't allowed to cantilever the diaphragm out past shear walls. It seems to me that you'll need to use as many exterior walls as you can. The interior...
We've actually run into this problem before when dealing with 3 story very narrow townhouses. We were designing for structural independence, and another engineer got the job because of a clause in the IRC. Section R302.2.4 talks about the structural independence of townhouses. It says that...
I was recently reading a thread about snow on decks. The thread talked about what loading to use in this situation, but never mentioned the topic of drifting and/or sliding snow on decks. In lower elevation projects where snow isn't a big problem, there wouldn't be any need to worry about...
