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Metal building foundation design

Metal building foundation design

Metal building foundation design

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I have a few metal building foundation projects coming up. On the last foundation I did for this company, there were 15 to 20 different base plate/edge distance/reaction combinations. For most of these, there were 8 or so wind reactions, 2-4 seismic reactions plus the dead, live and collateral reactions. This is a lot of load combinations to check by hand (I actually set up an excel spreadsheet) and it takes a long time. Is this how most of you go about finding the critical reactions? Is there a way to simplify it? I know you can eliminate some of the LC by inspection, but it is still very time consuming.

Also, I am in a high seismic area. When designing for uplift or shear, if you add enough rebar so the concrete breakout is not of concern, you can assume you have ductile failure of the rebar, correct? I want to be able to avoid having to use the overstrength factor because the seismic loads are high enough already, I don't want to have to design for double or triple the reaction. Thanks

RE: Metal building foundation design

We have the exact same problem. It got so bad that we have started requiring the metal bldg guys to combine the loads for us. They complain but they can do it. Their software has that option.

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