Concrete/wood building shear walls
Concrete/wood building shear walls
(OP)
I'm working with a building design which has a large concrete room with 12 inch thick concrete walls connected to a wood frame building adjacent to it. My problem is that the seismic load is quite large for the whole building together with the weight of the concrete, resulting in a very high base shear. Can I deal with the seismic lateral forces separate for the concrete portion and the stick frame portion? Or do I have to deal with the combined seismic weight throughout the building resulting in some serious base shear?
EIT






RE: Concrete/wood building shear walls
Analysis and Design of arbitrary cross sections
Reinforcement design to all major codes
Moment Curvature analysis
http://www.engissol.com/cross-section-analysis-des...
RE: Concrete/wood building shear walls
Is this a bank vault that is separate from the structure?
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com
RE: Concrete/wood building shear walls
EIT
RE: Concrete/wood building shear walls
EIT
RE: Concrete/wood building shear walls
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com
RE: Concrete/wood building shear walls
So you have to be comfortable with its relative stiffness if you don't want to redistribute its mass to timber walls....