pole buildings
pole buildings
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For lateral bracing of a pole building (say 100 x 200 x 16 ft high)do you employ kneebraces or design roof as as a diaphragm and end walls as sheer walls. I'm not fussy about the latter when the client wants only roof strapping and light gage metal covering.





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If it is truly a pole building with the columns about 4'or more in the ground - look at those as cantilvered beams. They may add a lot of help.
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http://www.slideruleera.net/miscellaneous.html
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Or go to NFBA.com or org... National Frame buliders - they have lots of info.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Can you put in some interior wall sections - say every 60' or so?? They dont' need to be 100' wide - so you can have a large opening between bays.. Those can be used as shear walls and actually breaks the building into about three segments??
Need more info for a real good answer...
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I agree with msquared48 that a pole building this size will be hard to engineer without plywood roof diaphrams and plywood shear walls. Using Peterson's pole building methods will require very large treated wood columns buried 6 feet or more deep in minimum 2 ft diameter holes filled with concrete or compacted gravel.
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