I am in the process of the lateral design of a single story, rectangular, masonry shear wall and wood diaphragm building. The shear load is being transferred to the shear walls from the diaphragm through a continuous wood ledger, and anchors into the face of the masonry wall every so often...
For a double row of anchors in a masonry wall I am trying to figure out for which failure modes it makes sense to split up the load into the two bolts to effectively double the capacity of my connection. For masonry shear breakout and masonry crushing I think it makes sense to apply the entire...
We have a distribution center building with tilt walls (low seismic) that are jogging in and out along the length of the wall. We are trying to work up a way to have a continuous chord tie for our diaphragm. If we were to consider the ledger to be the chord tie we believe there would be some...
When doing a lateral analysis for a single story, rectangular shear wall building, I have typically seen it done where you first determine whether wind or seismic 'controls'. For seismic I have typically seen half the wall height of the walls perpendicular to the load direction taken into...
