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I am designing a flexible wood floor diaphragm with a deck. So essentially, the deck will be having a cantilevered diaphragm because there is no shear wall below the cantilevered part of the deck. I would like to get some tips about how to approach to a condition like that.
I was planning...
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I am designing a steel edge beam 28ft long, which will only take 2' of trib. load. There will be a concrete on metel deck placed on top of it. I was planning to design the wide flange beam as fully braced on the top. I was just wondering if there is an objection to that or not.
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I have a shear wall sitting on a HSS Tube. I have two nailers on each side of the tube, which transfer the shear from the flexible diaphragm. The nailers are connected to the tube with 5/8 Dia. welded stud bolts. The shear at the wall is not more than 340 plf. Since there are two nailers on...