One shear wall for entire building?
One shear wall for entire building?
(OP)
I have a building about 100 feet wide and 80 long. It's one story steel frame with masonry wall running down center in short direction. i don't have masonry at edges and want to use just the center masonry wall to resist shear. how would the shear from the diaphragm transfer into the wall? would the diaphragm act as a cantilever from the wall to the edge of the building in both directions?






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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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On your building, you must have some lateral resisting elements in the short direction, so what are you concerned about?
DaveAtkins
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As noted above, this can be done, but there needs to be at least 2 in the perpendicualr direction to take out torsion.
As noted, having only one shear wall means no redundancy, so I would make sure that you have considerably more capacity in that wall than you need (say 150%).
also note that the maximum moment in the diaphragm is at the shear wall, so make sure this is adequate.
RE: One shear wall for entire building?
Another option, since you have a steel frame, can you run the beams over the columns and count on some frame action in addition to the shear wall - like a dual system? If the members are there anyways, why not use them?
RE: One shear wall for entire building?