Masonry C shaped Shear Wall Lateral Analysis
Masonry C shaped Shear Wall Lateral Analysis
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Attached is a crude drawing of a c-shaped 8" reinf. CMU wall. 50' x 250' bldg 2 story. Roof Flexible, Floor rigid All thick walls may be shear walls.
I am looking for the shear per foot for the walls. I know there will be torsion introduced because of the C shape nature of the walls. I am thinking Torsion= Total lateral force at centroid of floor * distance from force to shear center of C-shaped wall.
Am I going the right direction to find shear load on each wall?
I am looking for the shear per foot for the walls. I know there will be torsion introduced because of the C shape nature of the walls. I am thinking Torsion= Total lateral force at centroid of floor * distance from force to shear center of C-shaped wall.
Am I going the right direction to find shear load on each wall?






RE: Masonry C shaped Shear Wall Lateral Analysis
DaveAtkins
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Technically, neglecting the endwalls in your rigidity calc will increase your eccentricty. However the walls perpendicular to the lateral loads aren't generally designed to resist the lateral loads as this would make them beam columns versus shear walls.
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Translating by using couple forces on the walls may be conservative in some instances...but not all
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