Our company has been asked to provide solutions for a project gone bad. It's 4 levels of multifamily residential supported on a network of steel beams with parking below. My issue for this discussion are the steel beams. The coped steel beams were torch cut with no radius (photo is attached)...
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I'm a structural engineer and so I don't often design the actual piles to support my builidngs, I do however get asked to provide reactions so the Geotechnical Engineer can design them. My question is how exactly are the applied loads to be calculated for desing of these piles based...
WillisV,
That was my concern also, that you lose most (or all) of the ductility with the adhesive. Seismic does not govern in this case (PGA in the area is 0.059g, very minimal) so the shear walls are basically for wind loads only.
I'd actually found some results of a test done by the National...
I am in the process of desinging a 4 storey wood condo building in a low seismic zone and I am questioning the shear wall design we have used in the past.
On past projects typical OSB shear walls with specified nailing patterns have been combinded with construction adhesive to each framing...
