Post Installed Anchor Capacity in Bond Beams
Post Installed Anchor Capacity in Bond Beams
(OP)
I am designing a carwash using wood trusses at the roof and 8" cmu block for the walls. I am planning on connecting a ledger board to a masonry bond beam using post installed anchors in order to handle in plane and out of plane wind loads from the walls (I will also provide some blocking/strapping to prevent cross grain bending and drag the load into the diaphragm). As the roof gradually slopes up, the truss top chord gradually slopes upward and the edge distance of the anchor to the edge of the bond beam will get smaller and smaller. I think that a solution for this would be to just stack two or three bond beams on top of each other and fully grout all of them in order to maintain proper edge distances for the anchors but am not sure if 3 separate fully grouted bond beams would act like a single 24" tall beam with respect to anchor edge distances requirements.
Does anyone have any input here?
Thanks in advance.
Does anyone have any input here?
Thanks in advance.






RE: Post Installed Anchor Capacity in Bond Beams
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
RE: Post Installed Anchor Capacity in Bond Beams
RE: Post Installed Anchor Capacity in Bond Beams
On another note, I would advise against wood roof in a car wash. Especially with metal plates