Concrete Shear Walls
Concrete Shear Walls
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Probably a basic question for many of you but help. Lateral wind forces create moments on the reinforced concrete columns throughout the structure that are excessive. I'm sure I get added shear wall benefit from sections of CBS wall with certain percentage of openings filled with concrete and reinforcement but how do I calculate/quantify this benefit?






RE: Concrete Shear Walls
RE: Concrete Shear Walls
RE: Concrete Shear Walls
By the way, an incise, center of stiffness, rotation, placement of the resultant at the story with the varying hypotheses continues to be some headache and more than to the user engineer to the houses providing the software for proper analysis since they conjointly complicate the analysis by overspreading attention maybe more than the captured effects are worth, and in my view should be further simplified, even if to the cost of some minimal overdesign.
Then, when I say, follow the guides, or codes, well, the requirements for a wall that just bears vertical load and one that is a shearwall maybe different in the applicable codes. So there is that you need to look at to not forget some interesting clause, detail or explanation.
RE: Concrete Shear Walls
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RE: Concrete Shear Walls
I beleieve it stands for Concrete Block System.
This could get complicated and your best bet is to retain the services of a local structural engineer.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering