In our TGI Friday one story building, three sides are wood shear wall panel, one side is block masonry wall, #5@24"O.C. How do I get the relative rigidity for each side of wall to distribute the lateral force cause by wind or seismic since these 4 side are different material? Is any simply way...
In our design of concrete building, The concrete slab is designed as 9" thickness. The contractor misreaded the design drawing and put a 10' by 1' big opening 5' away from one of the column. Next column is 24' away from four sides of this column. This opening was originally designed as 1' by 1'...
We designed the concrete column for our new 14 stroies apartment building,the first two floor are parking garage. couple of the columns were designed 8ksi but the they were built by 5ksi concrete. We tried to use FRP Composites to strengthen the column but those columns are size 24inches by 12...
