Thanks for the responses. They are indeed light gauge steel structures, not pre-engineered metal buildings. I did consider the 3-walled lateral system, however, it appears they are using the 29ga roofing/wall panels for the shear resisting elements at the 3 walls. I haven't found any...
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Hopefully, I am in the correct forum for this topic. I'm curious if any of you have experience in designing light gauge self storage buildings. More specifically, I'm curious how the tall RV buildings are being designed to resolve the lateral shear forces along the front walls...
Thanks again for all the replies. I did see that the IBC 2012 has a "Kindle version," but am not sure of its formatting and functionality, though. I find it interesting that the different codes and reference materials offer .pdf formats, yet do not provide any further information describing...
Thanks for the information everyone. I have had electronic, (.pdf), copies in the past for my computer, and I agree, there were some limitations when compared to the hard copies. My wife was reading a magazine on her Kindle and it was very slick how she could flip the pages with her finger, as...
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First post here, but have reviewed posts for several years now. . . great forum.
I am in the process of upgrading some of my reference manuals and code books and am curious if any of you use tablets for electronic versions of your reference material/books? If so, which...