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A shear wall hardware product manufacturer is claiming a steel threaded rod with epoxy anchored to concrete does not need to comply with ACI 318 anchorage provisions. I disagree. If ACI equations are used to check the anchor’s capacity, the product would have a reduced capacity and...
Has anyone on here used (or heard of) the "Equivalent Truss Method" for diaphragm design? I believe the idea was originally proposed (or popularized) by J.M Scarry in New Zealand specifically for designing irregular shaped semi-rigid concrete diaphragms. I've attached one of his papers for...
