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    Lateral design of storage containers

    Thanks much! Do you have experience designing these? If so, would you consider the ground floor that’s anchored to foundation or SOG as a ‘supported’ floor and calculate floor shear for it in addition to the roof, per ELG procedure?
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    Lateral design of storage containers

    Hi everyone, Are there any structural design standards or specification for design of storage containers specially for lateral loads Thanks
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    Precast Double Tees

    I wouldn't recommend it. This could be unnecessary liability you assume, absent necessary information. Try to either get information on strands in DT via old drawings or on-site scanning to be able to do any evaluation. Walls parallel to stems are more critical than the perpendicular walls. Not...
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    Shipla boards over grade beam details

    Hi All Quick question--- working on small job where owner wants to use shiplap boards for his/her front porch--roughly 10*30. My first job though, of this kind. I'm thinking of doing grade beams for perimeter and center and simply installing shiplap boards on top. Would appreciate feedback if...
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    Load distribution for hollow core u

    thanks BAretired! Some walls are labeled as “Shear walls” with a seismic up/down force specified at ends. Granted that full seismic load will not act concurrently for both E/W and N/S walls, nor code requires any orthogonal combination. Surprisingly most of the hollow core seems to fail only for...
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    Load distribution for hollow core u

    Hi I have a hollow core system that has load bearing walls running on top of it—- perpendicular to span of hollow core system and there are still some hollow core slabs which are subject to additional point load, or running load parallel to its span, would you still use load distribution for...
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    Podium Slab Design

    Hi All Working on a podium job that’s in SDC B. The overall building design is by EOR and our contract is limited to sizing the gravity members including gravity columns at the podium/transfer lever for loads shown on EOR’s structural plans. Interestingly, they have lots of wood walls, bearing...
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    Transfer Level Design for Lateral Loads

    Thanks @milkshakelake & @Tomfh. Partial framing plan is attached. It's not a thought thru layout that's been handed down to us to work with, as you will notice. Let me know your thoughts or if you have further...
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    Transfer Level Design for Lateral Loads

    Hi All, I am working on a 'podium/transfer' level design that has columns and walls landing on its slabs and beams from floor above. The entire podium is going to be topped with 4" concrete topping. The columns and walls transfer not just the usual gravity loads but seismic loads that are shown...
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    Lateral Loads on Podium Level

    Hi All, I am working on a 'podium' level design that has columns and walls landing on its slabs and beams from floor above. The entire podium is going to be topped with 4" concrete topping. The columns and walls transfer not just the usual gravity loads but seismic loads that are shown to act in...
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