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Horizontal diaphragm & shear wall for wood frame bdg 1

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tigatgu

tigatgu

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Hello all,
I need to prepare a structural calculations for a woodframe house on a hillside in California. The house would look like this
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For the lateral analysis,
Should I treat the system as a 3 stories, or should I separate it as 1 story + 2 story with some kind of connection?

Please advice. Any opinions would be appreciated.
 
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It would be better to do 3-D analysis for such case. Yet if you decide for 2-D analysis, then still it is not a problem, you can just take this particular model as it is and start analysing, it does not really matter to much.

Prachand Man Pradhan
Structural Engineer

 
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