Conservative K value for partially braced frame?
Conservative K value for partially braced frame?
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What is a conservative K value for a partially braced frame like in the attached picture? It’s somewhere between sideway inhibited and non-inhibited.






RE: Conservative K value for partially braced frame?
RE: Conservative K value for partially braced frame?
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RE: Conservative K value for partially braced frame?
RE: Conservative K value for partially braced frame?
RE: Conservative K value for partially braced frame?
You could also use the alignment chart with the column length taken to truss CL and the truss stiffness subbed in for the girder stiffness. This is effectively column and girder with a wildly stiff girder.
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RE: Conservative K value for partially braced frame?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcKQ0SD-rp8