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Shear Wall Attachment to Steel Columns

Shear Wall Attachment to Steel Columns

Shear Wall Attachment to Steel Columns

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Hello,

How do shear walls attached to steel columns or beams? I've never worked with shear walls before and am wondering about the construction of a masonry shear wall to a steel framed building.

I have a simple example to illustrate my question. Consider two wide flange columns with a wide flange beam spanning between them. Below the beam is a masonry wall that I would like to take advantage of because it is going to at least act as a partition between an office area and a manufacturing area. I figured that I could design the wall to help brace the overall structure.

Where should the connection of the shear wall be? There will be vertical reinforcing at a certain spacing, so I'm going to use that spacing to connect the shear wall to the foundation wall at the base. The top of the wall is under a wide flange beam, so I am going to have a connection of the beam to the top of the wall via some sort of angle and epoxied rod assembly. Is having connections at the top and bottom sufficient, or should the wall also be tied into the column in some manner?

I'm not asking necessarily for help on this specific issue, but rather would like to gain some more knowledge as to how masonry/concrete shear walls are attached to steel framed building in general.

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