To be honest it seems like everytime I open the AWC SDPWS-2008 I find another tidbit I seemed to have overlooked or plain out missed.
My latest gem is section 4.3.3.4 (Summing Shear Wall Lines)
It reads: The nominal shear capacity for shear walls in a line, utilizing shear walls sheathed with the same materials and construction, shall be permitted to be combined if the induced shear load is distributed so as to provide the same deflection, d[sub]sw[/sub], in each shear wall.
Typically when I look at a segmented shearwall with multiple panels/segments with similar construction I assume that all segments have the same unit shear which is the method I took from D. Breyer's book "Design of Wood Structures". Section 4.3.3.4 appears to run contrary to this method. Am I interpreting this incorrectly?
A confused student is a good student.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson, PE
My latest gem is section 4.3.3.4 (Summing Shear Wall Lines)
It reads: The nominal shear capacity for shear walls in a line, utilizing shear walls sheathed with the same materials and construction, shall be permitted to be combined if the induced shear load is distributed so as to provide the same deflection, d[sub]sw[/sub], in each shear wall.
Typically when I look at a segmented shearwall with multiple panels/segments with similar construction I assume that all segments have the same unit shear which is the method I took from D. Breyer's book "Design of Wood Structures". Section 4.3.3.4 appears to run contrary to this method. Am I interpreting this incorrectly?
A confused student is a good student.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson, PE