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Shear in thinner gage

Shear in thinner gage

Shear in thinner gage

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Would like some tips on the design of shear wall made out of deck 24ga (or thinner if possible).  I've found standards for 22ga or thicker.  But what about thinner gages?

RE: Shear in thinner gage

As long as you can define the solicitation in the panel you will find help in

Guide to Stability Design Criteria for Metal Structures 5th ed.
Edited by Theodore V. Galambos
Wiley

I have some Mathcad sheets portraiting the procedures, some of them freely downloadable from the collaboratory site of Mathsoft. A pure shear case with rigid enough framing shouldn't be difficult to deal with.

A potential problem of too thin plates is to become noisy and accumulate some of the permanent deformation implied in its tension field theory, maybe this is the cause of not going under some thicknesses.

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