Concrete Wall Shear at Slab Intersection
Concrete Wall Shear at Slab Intersection
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Hello,
I am fairly new to concrete design and am trying to determine a way to increase allowable shear resistance in a concrete wall at the intersection of a slab. I am currently dealing with a cantilevered, laterally loaded, wall that has a slab that provides lateral restraint to the wall. My main question is there any way to increase the shear capacity of the wall at the slab intersection without thickening the wall? Any help would be much appreciated.
TWG84
I am fairly new to concrete design and am trying to determine a way to increase allowable shear resistance in a concrete wall at the intersection of a slab. I am currently dealing with a cantilevered, laterally loaded, wall that has a slab that provides lateral restraint to the wall. My main question is there any way to increase the shear capacity of the wall at the slab intersection without thickening the wall? Any help would be much appreciated.
TWG84






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BA
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JAE.. Increasing f'c does not give me enough additional shear capacity.
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Some of the shear will be transferred to the diaphragm at the top, if there is a diaphragm present. May not be the case though...
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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BA
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Well, statically speaking, if you lowered the steel beam level, the bottom of the wall would see less shear.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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The steel beam is a bad idea as you cannot pour concrete around it. Much better to use a monolithic pour with the beam having the same depth as the wall.
I would be surprised if shear stress is critical, but you have given no dimensions or loads, so who knows?
BA
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The load induced on the wall based on the material that I am designing the wall to resist is causing the issue. I am designing the wall to hold a bulk storage material. The issue is where the slab braces the wall. At that intersection I am getting a very large shear force that the wall needs to resist. The material that I am designing the wall to withstand is approximately 70pcf with a 27° angle of repose. Based on that density, and pressure distribution, that I calculated, it is putting a lot of shear into my wall when trying to design the wall as a cantilevered wall. I am trying to keep the wall thickness no greater than 24". From the pressure distribution analysis that I performed, I am loading the wall with 1300 psf. I feel that I may be overlooking something minor.
Thanks,
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BA
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The attached sketch should show the dimensions, wall layout, and lateral load for more clarity.
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I don't get any shear issue if I take ALL of the load sideways into the columns or ALL of the load down to the slab or footing.
The total lateral force I get is 1300 psf x 8 ft x 12 ft = 125 kips.
If you use a live load factor of 1.6 you get a factored total lateral force of 200 kips.
If you look at the shear capacity of the wall, using b = 12" (a one foot section) and d = 20", f'c = 4000 psi
I get a phiVc capacity of the wall of about 23 kips/ft. Over the 8 ft. base of the wall you get 184 kips capacity.
Using f'c = 5000 psi you get 206 kips capacity.
If you do what BAretired correctly states - use yield line analysis to take advantage of the three-way behavior of the wall the total shear will come down significantly.
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BA
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BA. i apologize for an earlier confusion on my previous sketch. The wood wall above I have spanning between the columns so I wasn't accounting for any direct interaction with the concrete wall. I understand that in carrying the loads from the wood wall to the columns would interfere with the behavior of my columns. There is some shear that my wall is having to resist, but I am not having any problems with them resisting the shear that I am transferring to the columns. For my wood wall I am using LVL beams with plywood sheathing on ea. side. Because I am distributing the load to the columns, I have my columns to be @ the 10ft center to center, to keep from developing too much shear in my wood members. As the load gets to approximately 2ft above the concrete wall the load distribution begins to decrease as it carries further up the wall.
I have attached another sketch to hopefully provide more clarification of the section that I am looking at. Please note that the Columns are not shown in this section. This section is only showing the wood and concrete wall with how I laid out my pressure distribution on the wall. Thanks for all of your help so far.
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Your information comes in bits and pieces, each contradicting the previous one. You must learn to start thinking like a structural engineer. I don't mean that as a criticism as we all had to start somewhere. It takes time and until you are able to do that, you are going to need supervision from a qualified engineer, which you don't appear to be getting now.
The first thing you need to do is to develop a conceptual framing arrangement for the entire structure. Before doing a lot of calculations, you may wish to discuss it with your boss and get his input. Or you may find that your first idea didn't work after doing a few calculations. It is far better to spend time developing a workable concept than to get bogged down in detail.
Forget about yield line theory for now. It may have been applicable to your first sketch, but no longer makes much sense. Focus instead on how you are going to frame these storage bins from foundation to roof.
Regarding your latest sketch:
1. What is the elevation of exterior grade?
2. What happens at top of columns 33' above the wall? Are the columns tied by beams across the 40' bay or are they just flapping in the breeze?
3. Do you have a tentative Roof Framing Plan?
4. Why is top of footing 2'-0" below top of slab? Would it be better to cast the slab directly over the footings?
BA
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Thanks for all of your input. I do not take any of this as criticism as I am merely trying to fully understand and know that what I am designing is structurally adequate plus the qualified engineer that I am under is not of much help. To answer your questions:
1. Elevation of existing grade will match finish floor elevation
2. The columns will be tied together each direction by glulam members.
3. I have a Roof Framing Plan laid out based on my column locations and spacing. The plan consist of what is described in 2 above. Also I have a steep slop on my roof. Roof slope on one side if 4/12 and a 12/12 on the other side.
4. the wall on the right side of the sketch is an exterior wall, therefore I have it 2ft below finish floor in order to achieve the minimal frost depth. being that the other footing is interior it could be raised up to cast the slab directly over the footing.
Thanks,
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What governed the wall cutoff level of 114'-0"? Why not use a consistent framing system with wood wall framing between columns all the way from bottom to top and avoid those messy cantilevered walls. From an erection standpoint, it would be simpler and cheaper to use glulam or structural steel columns.
That is my first reaction, but others may have different opinions.
BA
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