I've got a case where we have a beam that has an end reaction of vertical shear and an axial load. The steel fabricator would like to use a WT connection that is welded to the supporting column web and bolted to the supported steel beam. I've run through the simple shear connection requirements...
Just a quick question as I am new to wind engineering. For the MWFRS are the wind loads we calculate per ASCE7 such that we are designing the structure to remain elastic or is it similar to seismic design where we allow structures to develop plastic hinges/deformation?
I'm designing a collector strut that transfers the lateral load from a diaphragm into a shear wall and wanted to make sure of the capacity of the nailed connection. I attached a quick calc and sketch of the connection. Basically there is a 2x collector strut with 10d common nails connecting to...
