Continuous chord angle attachment
Continuous chord angle attachment
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As many of you may know, a continous angle is used to transfer the chord force at the roof diaphragm into a wall and it is called out to be anchored to the wall at some distance o.c., for this question it is a pre-cast concrete wall. More often than not, the wall is not perfectly straight. Therefore, it is difficult to attach the angle to the wall.
I am curious, how would some of you handle this situation?
I am curious, how would some of you handle this situation?






RE: Continuous chord angle attachment
1. Utilize steel shims at each fastener to fill the gap between angle and precast. The shims can be welded to the angle as well.
2. Utilize shorter lengths of angle to better accommodate the irregularity in the wall. Each piece must therefore be spliced with some type of lap plates to adequately transfer the load. In high seismic areas this may not be very desireable as you'd want the number of splices to be minimized.
RE: Continuous chord angle attachment