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The diaphragms are all flexible, and shear walls at the first floor is CFS and not concrete shear walls. Moment frame could potentially extend full height, however that would result in the upper floor shear walls to be designed for R=3.5 doubling the design force, which I feel is...
I have a four-story building with shear walls on upper floors, and Ordinary moment frame at the first floor (please see attached picture). This results in the first floor (including the shear walls) to be designed for R=3.5 as per ASCE 7-16 Section 12.2.3.3. For the shear wall forces, I will...
