Thanks DST148, your input is very helpful. This is indeed one story building.
Effective Seismic Load of 266 kips is for the entire building that includes all walls and roof. For the direction of the seismic force shown in the sketch, I will calculate effective seismic weight (base shear) due to...
Hairline crack has to be surfacial only and not through crack. Through crack may be designated as structural crack. Give sometime to the crack to watch its behavior specially around extreme temperature days.
If it starts aggravating than may want to do core drill across the crack and inspect...
The one below imaginary reference line is 10 and the one above is 18". Half the length is 18" whereas the remaining half is 10".
For the two parallel walls (West and East) I am coming up with approximately 216 kips for 18" and 50 kips for 10" front wall.
Hi, I am attaching my calculation for calculation of in-plane seismic shear loads to parallel wall. Effective Seismic weight of building comprised of 18" reinforced concrete walls, 10" masonry walls and non-composite roof is 266 kips. Assuming the structure to be rigid, I am getting 88/wall of...
I do agree with you on three layers condition.
Notice that this will be a vertical wall application. For such application, what other problems can you possibly think of?
Question:
Is there a code limitation on how many Welded Wire Meshes can be combined together to attain required Moment Strength in a wall in single layer?
Example Discussion
If moment strength of a welded mesh required is 0.15 sq. in
Combing 3 layers of welded wire meshes 12x12 W5/W5 will = 3...
