Building Expansion Joint Sizing
Building Expansion Joint Sizing
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I was curious how most are sizing building expansion joint widths in seismic design category A, B and C buildings.
Are you sizing it for thermal movement, amplified seismic movement, a combination of the two, or another method?






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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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If you have 2 moment frame buildings abutting, and you're under ASCE 7-05 the additive rather than SRSS combo for amplified drift yields ridiculous widths in my opinion.
I wish I could have used SRSS...
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