What is blocked diaphragms, what is unblocked diaphragms?
What is blocked diaphragms, what is unblocked diaphragms?
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I am looking at IBC-2006, Table2306.3.1 (page445), can anybody please help me to understand what configuration is called blocked diaphragms, what configuration is called unblocked diaphragms?
Thanks a lot
Thanks a lot






RE: What is blocked diaphragms, what is unblocked diaphragms?
If you add blocking between the joists so that all panel edges are supported you have a blocked diaphragm.
Buy a copy of Don Bryer's book "Design of Wood Framed Structures". Don's book has a lot of information about diaphragms and shear walls. It covers such things as shear walls with both vertical and horizontal offsets.
RE: What is blocked diaphragms, what is unblocked diaphragms?
Thank you very much.