SJI recommends minimum seat welds which are routinely checked when seats must transfer external loads into the joist chords. But what about internal forces? For a building with multiple bays of joists (assume equal spans and loads) with joists on each side of the supports, the column...
I have seen a joist manufacturer recommend stacking two courses of 12" concrete block (bond beam on top with lintel course below) on top of an 8" CMU bearing wall to obtain sufficient wall width to allow joists on either side of the wall to be butted together, in order to make the joist spacing...
I have read the structural forums on this site for many years and found many an answer to my own questions. However I now have one which has not been addressed before.
I am wrestling with trying to anchor a shear wall into the top of a narrow foundation wall. Because of the limited width, I...
