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I have a two story wood framed building. the second floor cantilevers 4'-0" past the wall below. there are segmented shear walls that occur at the cantilevered portion of the second floor. the shear walls sit on a Glu-lam which is supported by a steel post at both ends. Am i allowed to anchor the holddowns for the shear wall into the glulam? i have Simpson HDU2 holddowns which require a 5/8" diam. anchor and a 18" deep glulam. will i have enough depth to develop the anchor?





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I'm sure there is a way to connect the hold down to the glulam (a thru bolt comes to mind with a steel saddle)
I'd probably be tempted to custom fab my hold down as opposed to using a pre-engineered product in this case
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For OP referrence, I believe that this is that discussion.
@Jayrod: do you feel any better about this one given that it's not a permanent load application?
What make me nervous here is that you've really got two connections here that will tend to induce perpendicular to grain stress in the glulam between the hold down and the post: 1) the hold down to glulam connection and 2) the glulam to post connection. As others have pointed out, however, the load is pretty small. If the two connections work by the numbers then it works.
If the connection didn't work by the numbers, one option might be to do something like this:
1) Move your boundary stud pack and hold down 1' inboard of the steel post.
2) Thru-bolt your hold down all the way through to the bottom of the glulam.
3) Thru-bolt your post cap plate all the way through to the top of the glulam.
In this way, you've sort of got a "lap" between connections to borrow from concrete terminology.
I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.
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