I am designing a structure with 16 foot high sheet pile walls on three sides and a concrete/steel pan deck diaphragm closing the top. Is there a reference with values one could use to estimate the strength of the walls as shear walls, acting to resist lateral loads in the plane of the wall...
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The codes obviously recognize that impact analysis is difficult and do not include it. The dissipation of the kinetic energy is so sensitive to the amount of deflection and the time taken to bring it to a halt that the possible range of loads is very wide...
Does anyone have a good reference for calculating or estimating the design load due to snow sliding off an upper roof onto a structure below?
The ASCE 7-05 reference, 7.9, for loads due to sliding snow, severely underestimates the load in my case. This was for snow falling 28 feet from an...
